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Identify Bernardo, Francisco, Marcellus, Horatio, and King Hamlet. Bernardo, Francisco, Marcellus- guard soldiers at ElsinoreHoratio- Hamlet’s friend, a scholarKing Hamlet- Hamlet’s father who was murdered prior to the beginning of the play, dead king/ghost What had Bernardo seen at a…

Hamlet resolves to kill King Claudius, but then he does not take advantage of an opportunity to do so. How does this show that Hamlet is a round character? He acts in contradictory ways. How does this passage show that…

The curtain opens on what setting? (place & time) Elinore Castle in Denmark at midnight. Why was Francisco happy to see Bernardo? He was scared. Why has Marcellus begged Horatio to join in the watch? They have something shocking to…

“i did love you once”…”i loved you not” Hamlet and Ophelia “I loved Ophelia, forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum” Hamlet and Ophelia “he hath importuned me with love in honourable…

Neither a borrower nor a lender be; for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. Polonius I will speak daggers to her, but use none. Hamlet O what a noble mind is here…

Simile Example: “Mad as the sea and wind when both contend which is the mightier.” (Scene 1) Inversion Example: “Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain” (Scene 1) Metaphor Example: “So dreaded slander—whose whisper o’er the world’s diameter, as level as…

“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite, that I was born to set it right!” Hamlet, now, has the burden of avenging his father’s death and is sad about the whole task ahead. The quote illustrates Hamlet’s view…

Which detail in Hamlet reflects Elizabethan society? The form of government is a monarchy. How does King Claudius’s speech reflect Elizabethan political concerns? It shows that monarchs must worry about how the public perceives them. How does Hamlet’s speech reflect…

fortinbras prince of Norway; wants to regain land his father lost england Rosencrantz and Guildenstern prepare to take Hamlet there grave hamlet jumps into Ophelia’s _____ sponge descriptive word Hamlet uses for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern be “To __ or not…

What is Banquo thinking about at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 1? Cite specific lines to support your response. -Banquo is suspicious about Macbeth-He is also buying into what the witches said Who does Macbeth say is the only…