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Claudius My words fly up my thoughts remain below words without thoughts never to heaven go Ophelia There’s Rosemary that’s for remembrance and here’s pansies that’s for thoughts Hamlet There’s a divinity that shapes rough hew them how we will…

Summary Something is amiss in Denmark — for two successive nights, the midnight guard has witnessed the appearance of the ghost of Old Hamlet, the former King of Denmark who has recently died. The guards bring Horatio, a learned scholar…

Why is everybody so edgy at the start of the play? lately, a ghost has been strolling outside the castle The first scene illustrates that: the ghost of old hamlet is an apparition seen by many men Which is true…

AO1 • Gertrude becomes a primary victim of the Patriarchal structures of Elizabethan England when she weds Claudius, following the death of her husband and his brother, Old Hamlet. Hamlet immediately identifies this as her losing her status as a…

And can you, by no drift of circumstance,Get from him why he puts on this confusion, King ClaudiusHave you found out what’s wrong with him? Why he’s crazy? He does confess he feels himself distracted;But from what cause he will…

For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being agod kissing carrion, —Have you a daughter? Hamlet to Polonius Let her not walk i’ the sun: conception is ablessing: but not as your daughter may conceive.Friend, look to…

Example of duplicity in Claudius’ speech Have we as ’twere with a defeared joy, With an auspicious and a drooping eye Juxtapositioning in Claudius’ speech With mirth in funeral and dirge in marriage How is Gertrude described by Claudius? Our…

“Without the sensible and the true avouch.”Who says this to who?What does this mean? -Horatio –> Marcellus and Benardo-If he hadn’t seen the ghost with his own eyes he wouldn’t believe it. “O, that this too, too sullied flesh would…

What is the first line of the play? Why might it be significant? What does it suggest about the play? Briefly explain. “Who’s there?” It is significant because throughout the play there is a constant question of who people really…

Buffet (N) hit or strike (v) to strike with hand or fist or to strike against Synonyms: slap, cuff, box, wallop Calamity (N) disaster, hardshipSynonyms: blow, catastropheAntonyms: advantage, profit Consummation (N) completion; fulfillmentSynonyms: end, wrapAntonyms: failure Enterprise (N) projects, plansSynonyms:…