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What is the setting Athens How is Hippolyta’s reasoning concerning how quickly the next 4 days will pass different from that of Theseus She’s getting married to someone she doesn’t like and doesn’t respect him while he’s happy How do…

Oberon Wants the human boy from Titania and fights with Titania. Later Titania keeps the boy. *demanding Titania Wants to keep the human boy,but Oberon wants the child so they fight and she keeps the child. *arrogant Hermia Wants to…

What problems do Bottom and the others find with the play? How do they intend to solve those problems? 1. people are going to be scared of Pyramus killing himself on stage so Bottom will say that he is not…

Why has Theseus ordered a revel (festivity)? he orders it because hes getting married and to celebrate his marriage to Hippolyta. What has he promised Hippolyta? That their wedding will be a happy time Why does Egeus bring Hermia, Lysander,…

“The man and his… reputation are interchangeable”-Bridget Elscome “The love of power within ourselves and the admiration of… it in others are both natural to man:the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave”-William Hazlitt “Still he is more…

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…

Ghost The former King Hamlet of Denmark; Hamlet’s Father Hamlet The Prince of Denmark Claudius The ghost’s younger brother, and the new King of Denmark. Gertrude The Queen of Denmark Polonius The King’s counselor/advisor Laertes Polonius’ son (In his early…

How is this scene ambiguos regarding Gertrudes conversion in the previous scene? Gertrude tells Claudius of Polonius’s murder. She also does not object to Hamlet being sent to England. But she does not reveal the whole conversation she had with…

Summarise the events of the scene. Hamlet lectures three of the players on how to act. His lecture focuses on how to avoid overacting, suiting action to word and word to action. They exit. Hamlet has already told Horatio what…

How do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern unwittingly acknowledge Denmark’s corruption as an extension of Claudius’s corruption? “…keep those many bodies safe who live and feed upon your majesty…” How does Claudius cling to his status in a time of trouble but…