Hamlet Test Act 1
Act I: KEY ELEMENTS
Revenge
Honor
“This bodes some strange eruption to our state”
Who: Horation
What: Something bad is going to happen in denmark
Why: Foreshadowing
“A little more than kin, and less than kind”
Who: Hamlet
What: Refers to Claudius and how there are more closely related now but he feels less connected to him
Why: Portrays loyalty
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”
Who: Horatio
What: The king is not throneworthy
Why: Poison corruption and death
*Horatio is concerned that pursuing the ghost will cause Hamlet deep mental distress
“…meet it is I set it down, / That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain”
What: Peoples’ appearances might be deceiving
Why: Appearance vs reality
“As I perchance hereafter shall think meet / To put an antic disposition on…”
What: he’s telling his friends that he might have to act mad in the future.
Why: in order to disguise his investigation and hide his revenge on Claudius
Soliloquy: character speaks there thoughts out loud usually when there alone on stage
Hamlets opinion on his father: He respects him as a king and he loves him
Hamlet feels disappointed in his mother Gertrude because she married king Claudius too quickly after his father death
Hamlet wants to get revenge on his uncle King Claudius for marrying his mother
Hamlet feels betrayed by all of this and it shows loyalty to his dad
Laertes Cautions his sister about a relationship with Hamlet because…… come back
Time is “out of joint” because of hamlets fathers death and his mother remarriage to Claudius. It means time is disrupted after all that happened.
Before The ghost will tell Hamlet his secret he demands for him to avenge him
Quote: “So art to revenge when thou shout here” this is what the ghost said to hamlet about seeking revenge
The secret the ghost tells hamlet is that he was murdered by Claudius
He wants hamlet to get revenge for him
Everyone else thinks that he died from a snake bite
He actually got killed from when Claudius put poison in his ear
The theme of that is appearance versus reality. He appeared to get bit by a snake, but in reality he got poisoned by Claudius
The ghost tells Hamlet that he must not hurt Gertrude
This shows that the ghost still cares about his wife