Hamlet Test

“This above all: to thine own self be true”

“This above all: to thine own self be true”

• Polonius to Laertes

• Laertes going to college, offers good advices

“Get Thee to a Nunnery”

• Hamlet to Ophelia

• Disrespecting her, saying he never loved her

“Something is Rotten in the State of Denmark”

• Marcellus to Horatio

• Sees the ghost: the ghost is literally a rotting body, something is going wrong if the ghost is back

“You are a Fishmonger”

• Hamlet to Polonius

• Acting as if he’s never met Polonius

“Denmark is a prison”

• Hamlet to R and G

• He knows he’s being spied on, told he can’t leave Denmark for college

To Be or Not to Be; That is the Question”

• Hamlet

“Goodnight, sweet prince,

And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”

• Horatio to Hamlet as he’s dying

• He’ll get to go to heaven

"There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember. And there is pansies, that's for thoughts. . . . There's fennel for you, and columbines."

• Gertrude and Claudius

• She’s going insane

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."

• Claudius to God/himself

• Trying to pray, Hamlet chose not to kill him because he was “praying”

"I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum."

• Hamlet to Laertes

• At Ophelia’s funeral as they’re wrestling in Ophelia’s grave

theme of Act 2

Spying, R and G, Polonius spying on Hamlet, Claudius spying on Hamlet and watching while Ophelia talks to him

Unfair treatment of wome

• Gertrude often doesn’t get to share her side of the story

• Ophelia

  • attacked by Hamlet

  • purposefully mixed messages

What is ghost wearing

armor, there may be a battle in Denmark

what happened to old fortinbras

• killed by Hamlet Sr

cruel thing Claudius and Gertrude tell Hamlet in Act One

• get over the death of your father

why horatio is afraid for Hamlet to talk to the ghost by himself

Horatio fears for Hamlet’s physical and mental wellbeing

why doe polonius spend reynaldo to france

• spy on Laertes while at college

why will polonius send ophelia to talk to hamlet

confirm his theory on Hamlet’s madness. He believes it’s because of his love for Ophelia

what play does Hamlet ask the actors to perform

The murder of Gonzago, hopes it will bring a reaction out of Claudius

how is hamlet cruel about polonius’s death

dismissive about his death’s impact, mocks death and hides body

how the political climate of Elizabethean England mirrors Hamlet

Queen Elizabeth I was dying and had no heir. King James became king and was from Scotland, mirrors Fortinbras’ rise to the throne

How the religious climate of Elizabethean England

• Queen Elizabeth was Protestant while King James was Catholic

• Hamlet was likely Protestant, didn’t believe in ghosts or purgatory

• Significant challenge in whether or not the ghost of his father was real

• Religious beliefs guide Hamlet’s actions throughout the play