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What doesn’t Gertrude want to see Ophelia? She is feeling guilty that her son Hamlet killed her father Polonius. Why does Gertrude decide to speak with Ophelia? Ophelia could make false accusations about her fathers death and spread rumors if…

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw Hamlet to GuildensternI’m only crazy sometimes. At other times, I know what’s what. Sweets to the sweet! Farewell! i hoped thou shouldst have…

“Is she to be buried in Christian burial that willfully seeks her own salvation?Who said this? The gravedigger about Ophelia At the beginning of Act 5 what questions does the first clown have about Ophelia? Why she’s being given a…

Hamlet only uses his madness to create an intended effect. Polonius: “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t” (2.2.223-224) Hamlet reveals to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern his adoption of a visage of madness. Hamlet: “I am but mad north…

Hyperbole Exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. Hyperbole “Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum.” -Hamlet, Act 5, Scene 1. Hyperbole “Denmark’s a prison.” As an…

1. Why does Polonius send Reynaldo to Paris? To take money and notes to Laertes and to spy on him to make sure he is not gaming, drinking, fencing, swearing, or going to brothels. 2. Briefly describe the how Polonius…

True or False: Hamlet’s romance with Ophelia is ended by his mother. False True or False: Gertrude is astonished to see the ghost. False True or False: Yorick had been court jester. True True or False: Claudius never admits his…

where was shakespear born? Stafford in 1654 what was Shakespeare dads profession? glove maker who did Shakespeare marry, and in what year Anne Hathaway in 1582 hamlets 3 children Hamnet, Susan, Judith in what company did Shakespeare become a shareholder?…

Laertes thinks that Ophelia should have a better funeral service. What is the priest’s answer. He says she is lucky to be getting as nice of a funeral as she is, considering the nature of her death. Why does Hamlet…

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