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providence prudence and care exercised in the management of resourcesIt will be laid to us, whose providence Should have kept short, restrain’d and out of haunt, This mad young man. discord lack of agreement or harmonyMy soul is full of…

Futility the quality of having no useful result; uselessness Signet a small seal, as on a finger ring According to the second gravedigger (clown), why is the woman whose grave they’re digging being given a Christian burial, even though she…

Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, HamletTo give these mounting duties to your father…but to perseverein obstinate condolement is a courseof impious stubbornness Claudius telling Hamlet to stop mourning his father and be happy for him and his mother.…

Whom does Polonius send to France to spy on Laertes? Reynaldo send Polonius to France to spy on Laertes Where does the ghost appear during the play? The castle ramparts and Gertrude’s bedchamber How many characters die? Eight characters die…

What is Hamlet debating in his famous, “To be, or not to be” soliloquy? Whether or not to commit suicide Why does Hamlet repeatedly say to Ophelia, “Get thee to a nunnery”? He views the world, people, and especially woman…

In the churchyard, two gravediggers shovel out a grave for Ophelia and they argue whether… Ophelia should be buried in the churchyard, since her death looks like a suicide. The gravedigger, who does not recognize Hamlet as the prince, tells…

What did Hamlet do to Ophelia to frighten her? He grabbed her wrist, stared at her, and then nodded at her as if to say she is just like his mother. He then leaves without looking away from her What…

dramatic irony a contrast between what a character thinks and what the reader or audience knows to be true foreshadowing an incident or description that suggests events to come later in a literary work twists unexpected turns in a story…

Polonius sends Reynaldo to Paris. Polonius wants to learn about what his son is doing in Paris because he wants to spy on his son. What does Polonius send Reynaldo? Why? Polonius thinks that Hamlet is mad because he’s crazy…

To make a summary of a theme’s objective development, the reader should base the summary on facts. Which is the best example of an objective summary of the theme “truth is hard to discern” that is further developed in Act…