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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…

“With mirth in funeral and dirge in wedding” Speaker – Claudius In support of moving on, saying there should be a wedding after a funeral. Had no trouble moving on. “Conscience does make cowards of us all” Speaker – ClaudiusAfter…

sees ghost Act 1 Hamlet told not to be depressed anymore Act 1 Hamlet talks to ghost Act 1 Laertes goes to France Act 1 Ophelia promises not to fall in love with Hamlet Act 1 players come Act 2…

Allegory Literary work with 2 or more levels of meaning (Literal and symbolic)Example: Hamlet’s costume changes Allusion Reference to a well-known person, place, event, literary work, or work of artExample: “I did enact Julius Caesar. I was killed i’ the’…

“A little more than kin, and less than kind!” Hamlet “Frailty, thy name is woman!” Hamlet “to thine ownself be true” Polonius “More honored in the breach than the observance” Hamlet “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” Marcellus…

Claudius And can you by no drift of conferenceGet from him why he puts on this confusion,Grating so harshly all his days of quietWith turbulent and dangerous lunacy? Rosencrantz He does confess he feels himself distracted.But from what cause he…

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tell the King that Hamlet wishes the King and Queen to see the play? The King gladly accept In the famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy? Hamlet is pondering whether a miserable life is better…

What does Hamlet compare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to? Why? Sponges because they soak up Claudius’s orders and will be soon wrung dry! What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern want? Polonius’s body (which Hamlet has hidden) Gertrude doesn’t tell Claudius.. That hamlet…

adders poisonous snakes ambiguous vague, indefinite, indistinct arrant no self-control assail attack auspicious promising success: favorable baser lower in quality beguile trick, enchant canonized to consider holy or authoritative carnal appetite and passions of the body, sensual churlish ill mannered…

Said by: PoloniusTo Who: ReynaldoContext: Find out if Laertes is being a scumbag in France “Your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth” Said by: Polonius To Who: ReynaldoContext: Find out if Laertes is being a scumbag in France…