| When the King asks Hamlet where Polonius is, what is Hamlet’s answer? | -“At supper.”-“Not where he eats, but where he is eaten.” |
| What does Hamlet think of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? | -Doesn’t trust them. -Thinks they’re too weak/not smart enough to see that the king is using them. -Uses the word “sponge” to say how they soak up all the information they can & the king rings it out of them. |
| Why must the King “not put the strong arm on” Hamlet? | The common people/public loves Hamlet. |
| What is the content of the letters the King sends with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England with Hamlet? | The King wants Hamlet executed as soon as he reaches England. |
| What prompts Hamlet to say, “My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!”? | He learns that Fortinbras is fighting full force over a little plot of land that means nothing and he has not done anything about his father’s death. |
| What has happened to Ophelia? | She going crazy, and ends up drowning. People think it’s suicide. |
| Why does Laertes force his way in? What does he want? | He wants revenge for his father. |
| What is the content of Hamlet’s letter to Horatio? | -He escaped R&G onto a pirate ship-Good treatment on ship because pirates want favors from him. -Want Horatio to give letters to the the Kind & Queen to come and see him. |
| What plan do the King and Laertes discuss to kill Hamlet? | Put poison in a cup and offer Hamlet a drink. (Plotting his death.) |
| What news does the Queen bring Laertes? | The queen tells Laertes that Ophelia has drowned. |
| What has Claudius arranged for Hamlet in England? | To be put to death/Execution |
| Which character does Hamlet see marching across Denmark? | Fortinbras |
| Whose death does Laertes seek justice for? | Polonius |
| Who is the first to be informed that Hamlet returns to Denmark? | Horatio |
| What two characters plot to kill Hamlet? | Claudius and Laertes |
| Laertes will anoint his sword with… | Poison |
| Horatio receives what from a sailor? | A letter from Hamlet |
| Who arrives home from France? | Laertes |
| Who has sent letters to the English requesting that Hamlet be put to death? | Claudius |
| Who does Claudius summon and ask to find Hamlet? | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern |
| What does Hamlet do with the body of Polonius? | Hides it |
| Who is the first person Gertrude tells about the murder of Polonius? | Claudius |
| What sort of “game” does Hamlet force Rosencratz and Guildenstern to play? | Hide and seek. |
| To what object does Hamlet liken Rosencrantz? | A sponge |
| What has Hamlet, “safely stowed”? | The body of Polonius. |
| To what animal does Hamlet compare Claudius in the way that he uses people, eating them when they are no longer useful? | An ape |
| What do Claudius’s words, “Do it, England,” mean? | Kill Hamlet |
| Where does Hamlet finally say Polonius’s body can be found? | At the top of the stairs |
| Why is Claudius afraid to come down too hard on Hamlet? | He fears public opinion |
| What does Hamlet call his thoughts? | Bloody |
| When comparing himself to Fortibras, Hamlet finds that he is… | Inferior |
| Why is Hamlet surprised at Fortinbras’s attempt to conquer a part of Poland? | The land is worthless. |
| If there is no purpose to life, Hamlet feels that man is no better than… | A beast |
| What does Claudius order Horatio to do? | Follow Ophelia & keep an eye on her. |
| Who does the Messenger say the “rabble” want as their king? | Laertes |
| Laertes blames Hamlet for the death of his father. (True/False) | False |
| How does Ophelia seem when Gertrude and Claudius observe her? | Out of her mind, singing and chanting. |
| By what means is Hamlet making his way back to Denmark? | By pirate ship |
| Hamlet reveals what has happened to Rosencratz and Guildenstern in the letter. (True/False) | False. |
| Horatio finds out that Hamlet is on his way back to Denmark via a secret message from Laertes (True/False) | False |
| What does Horatio promise the sailors who gave him Hamlet’s letters? | A reward |
| What is Horatio to do with the letters the sailors gave him? | Give them to Claudius |
| In scene 5, when Claudius is talking to Ophelia, she sings two songs insinuates something happened between herself and Hamlet. What is it? | -Makes it seem like she slept with Hamlet because he promised he would marry her. -However, afterward Hamlet was cold towards her and didn’t keep his promise. |
| Why does Ophelia go crazy? | -She believes she is the cause of Hamlet’s madness & feel responsible for her fathers death. -She has no one to care for her & give her the attention she needs. |
| What are the two reasons Claudius can’t kill Hamlet? | 1. Hamlet is the public face 2. His mother is Gertrude & it would destroy her. |
| What’s the exact plan to kill Hamlet? (DETAILED) | 1. Laertes will challenge him to a duel and uncork his poisoned sword. 2. If Laertes looses, then Claudius will poison Hamlet’s drink instead. (Backup plan) |
| What was Ophelia doing before she drowned? | Picking flowers |
| What message does the messenger bring to Hamlet regarding Laertes? | -He wants to kill him because of his fathers death & take the throne. -Laertes is leading the rebellion in revenge for his father. |
| What will Laertes risk for revenge? | Anything & everything |
| In Claudius’s first speech, he tells Laertes that Hamlet not only killed Polonuis, but also tried to kill…. | Claudius himself. |
| Why does Laertes want revenge? (Two things) | 1. His father’s death2. His sisters madness (caused by father’s death) |
| What does Claudius say Hamlet is envious of, in regard to Laertes? | His knack for fencing/sword play |
| What do Laertes & Claudius plan to do with Hamlet’s envy for Laertes’s sword/fencing play? | -Use it against Hamlet in a duel & “accidentally” kill him. |
| “How all occasions do inform against me.” (4.4.34)Who is the speaker? | Hamlet |
| “There’s such divinity doth hedge a king…” (4.5.138)Who is the speaker? | King |
| What does Hamlet call his father that his father corrects him of? | Hamlet calls him his mother, and the king corrects him to say he is his father. |
| Where did opehila drown? | Brook |
Hamlet || Act 4
July 26, 2019