| Whose grave are the men digging? Why are they arguing if this person should be buried or not? | Ophelia’s. Because the suspicions of her taking her own life, and that is a mortal sin in the church. |
| Who skull does Hamlet hold up? What does Hamlet tell Horatio about that person? Why is this symbolism? | Yorick, the king’s old jester. He remembers him carrying him around on his shoulders. Because everyone’s a pile of bones in the end. It shows him that death takes away everyone’s differences. |
| Why does Laertes complain to the priest? | Because they’re not singing the usual hymns for his sister as they bury her. Cheated her of her burial rights because of how she died. |
| What happens when Hamlet steps out from the place where and and Horatio have been watching the funeral? | Hamlet and Laertes brawl in the gravel. |
| Claudius reminds Laertes to remain patient and to remember what? | They’ll take care of the problem soon, it’ll be all over soon. |
| How had Hamlet discovered Claudius’s order to have Hamlet beheaded? | A packet of papers that found and decided to read. Snuck into a a document room and accidentally read the letters. |
| How did Hamlet see to it that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern would be put to death instead of himself? Did he feel guilty about that? | he rewrote the letters in his fancy handwriting and used his seal. He doesn’t feel guilty about it one bit because they were bringing him to his death. |
| What message does Osric bring to Hamlet from the King? | That Laertes wants to sword fight him as soon as possible. |
| How does Gertrude die? | She drinks the poisoned wine meant for Hamlet. |
| How is Laertes mortally wounded? What does he say before he dies? Why does he mention he was put to death by his own evil acts? | Hamlet and Latertes somehow switch swords while fighting. “Like a mouse caught in my own trap.” His idea to but the poison on the sword and it backfired on himself. |
| How does Claudius die? | Hamlet stabs him with the poisoned blade and then forces him to drink the rest of the poison. |
| How does Hamlet die? What are his dying wishes? | He was hit by Laertes’s blade before hand. “Tell everyone what happened, set the story straight.” Fortenbras to be king of the Danish throne. |
| What does Horatio say in the end about this tragedy? Why do you think Hamlet did not choose him as king? | He tells the ambassador all about all the revenge plots and what had been going on. He knows that Fortinbras is like him, just strong and more able. |
| What does Fortinbras say he will do to honor Hamlet? | To fire the soldiers’s guns in honor of him and read him his military rights. |
Hamlet Act 5 Questions
July 1, 2019