| What is Elsinore | Castle in Denmark where the play takes place |
| Who are Bernardo, Marcellus, and Francisco | The guards watching the castle, the first ones to see the ghost |
| Explain the ghost | wears armour, marches around, looks like Hamlet Sr. |
| Who is Polonius | Vice President of Denmark |
| Who is Laertes | Son of Polonius |
| What is Wittenburg | College that Hamlet attends |
| Who said “I am too much in the Sun? | Hamlet |
| Who said “A little more than kin and less than kind” | Hamlet |
| What are two themes of Act one | appearance vs. realitygrief vs. manliness |
| What does Hamlet want to do that is against the law | Kill himself |
| What is the Hyperion/Satyr allusion | Comparing a sun God (Hamlet Sr.) to a goat boy (Claudius) |
| Who is Hamlet referring to when he says “Frailty, thy name is woman” | Gertrude (His Mom) |
| How does Hamlet use himself in an analogy to show how Claudius in nothing compared to Hamlet Sr. | Claudius in not to Hercules but Hercules is not to Hamlet |
| What breaks Hamlet’s heart more than the whole remarrying situation | The fact that he can’t say anything about it |
| Who said “in complete steel” | Hamlet |
| Who said “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” | Hamlet |
| What does “Be thy intent wicked or charitable” mean | Hamlet doesn’t care if the ghost is evil or good he’s following him |
| Explain what “Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unporportioned thought his act” means | Think before you speak/act |
| What does “be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar” mean | Be friendly with everyone but don’t be friends with everyone |
| what does “those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, grapple them unto thy soul with hoops of steel” mean | Hold onto your loyal friends |
| What does “Beware of entrance into a quarrel, but, being in, bear it that the opposed may beware of thee” mean | Try not to fight but if you have to go in with confidence |
| Explain what “Give every man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment” menas | Understand everyone opinion but don’t fight back with yours |
| What does “costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, but not expressed in fancy (rich not gaudy), for the apparel oft proclaims the man” mean | The way you look can perceives who you are |
| What does “neither a borrow nor a lender be, for loan often loses both itself and friend” mean | don’t borrow or lend because you can lose either money or a friend |
| What does “this above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to an man” mean | Whatever happens always be true to yourself and you’ll be true to everyone |
| Who was the one that gave Hamlet words of wisdom | Polonius |
| What did the ghost mean when he said “The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears the crown” | The snake that bit (killed) Hamlet Sr. was Claudius |
Hamlet Act 1
July 5, 2019