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Soliloquy #1 O, that this too, too sullied flesh would meltThaw and resolve itself into a dew!Or that the Everlasting had not fix’dHis canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable,Seem to me all the uses of…

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Friends of Hamlet; Called to Denmark to spy on him The Players Actors; Called to Denmark to distract Hamlet Where does Polonius send Reynaldo? Why? France; To spy on his son, Laertes Why does Polonius think Hamlet…

Hamlet is the prince of what country? Denmark Who is the ghost seen during the midnight watch? King Hamlet What country wants to attack Denmark? Norway Who is the leader of Norway’s army? Fortinbras The people believe that King Hamlet’s…

catharsis The release of passions experienced by the audience as it watches first the death of Gertrude, then that of Laertes, then that of Claudius, and finally that of Hamlet Aristotle would have called Polonius, Court Chamberlain. Self-seeking, cynical, pragmatic,…

What do the gravediggers say about Ophelia’s burial? She shouldn’t be getting a burial because she committed suicide. Who is “poor Yorick”? A jester who amused Hamlet when he was a young boy. As the funeral precession makes it way…

Act 1 – Scene 1 – Barnardo “Is it not something more than fantasy?” Act 1 – Scene 2 – Hamlet (soliloquy) “His canon ‘gainst self slaughter” Act 2 – Scene 2 – Hamlet (monologue) “paragon of animals…quintessence of dust”…

“Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.” Claudius to Hamlet: great minds are dangerous when they go mad; to protect the country we need to watch the “insane” Hamlet! “Give me that man that is not passion’s slave, and…

What can we figure out about the setting from the exchange between fransisco and bernardo? the play begins in elksinore castle and they are bodyguards What does Horatio think when Marcellus tells him about the ghost? He thinks they are…

At the start of Act 1 the ghost means ____________________ something is wrong in Denmark. The new kind of Denmark in Act 1 Claudius Claudius marriage to Gertrude is an attempt to __________________ Balance the bad with the good in…

internal conflict A conflict in which the opposing force is the character himself. politic Shrewd; doing what is best for oneself a tragedy ends with the death or destruction of the hero final disaster is neither contrived nor accidental but…