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What scene serves as comic relief? Gravedigger scene (probably digging Ophelia’s grave) What bothers Hamlet about the gravedigger? He’s singing as he digs the gravesHam thinks that his job should be sad & somber What bothers Hamlet about the skulls?…

“Tis sweet and commendable in your nature Hamlet, to give these mourning duties to your father, but to persevere in obstinate condolement is a course of impious stubbornness.” Claudius, It’s great that you loved your dad, but you need to…

Where is the setting for “Hamlet”? in Denmark around 9th century A.D. Who were the first guards to see the ghost and who did they go to tell about it? Marcellus/Horatio told Hamlet Why had Hamlet returned to the palace…

Hamlet … Claudius The King of Denmark, Hamlet’s uncle, and the play’s antagonist. The villain of the play, Claudius is a calculating, ambitious politician, driven by his sexual appetites and his lust for power, but he occasionally shows signs of…

What atmosphere is created by the witches in the first scene? What are their plans? -dark, eerie, mysterious atmosphere by referencing thunder, lightning, and rain-plan to meet Macbeth “upon the heath” when the battle is over-before sunset How does Macbeth’s…

interjection a word that expresses emotion and has no grammatical relation to other words in the sentence. Example: exclamations (Wow!), and/or explictives raze (v.) to tear down. [≠raise] arbitrate (v.) To act as judge. upbraid (v.) To scold, to verbally…

A great peturbation of nature … this slumbery agitation. Act 5 Scene 1. Doctor, referring to Lady Macbeth’s sleep-walking. Yet here’s a spot … Out, damned spot! Out, I say! … What will these hands ne’er be clean? Act 5…

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.Hover through the fog and filthy air.” ~ witches said it- foreshadowing, setting the mood of the supernatural “Let not light see my black and deep desires.” ~ Macbeth- After Duncan announces that he…

What is an exposition? The exposition is the part of a book that sets the stage for the drama to follow: it introduces the theme, setting, characters, and circumstances at the story’s beginnings. What is the exposition in Macbeth? The…

“When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?” Witches “When the hurlyburly’s done,When the battle’s lost and won.” Witches Fair is foul, foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air.” Witches “So foul and…