| hamlet | prince of denmark |
| claudius | king of denmark and hamlets uncle |
| gertrude | claudius wife and hamlets mother and the queen of denmark |
| the ghost | ghost of hamlets father, the late king |
| polonius | councillor to the king, ophelias and laertes´father |
| laertes | poloius´s son |
| ophelia | polonius´s daughter, hamlets love intrest |
| horatio | hamlets friend |
| rosencrantz | members of the court, fellow students of hamlet |
| guildensterm | memer of the court, fellow student of hamlet |
| fortinbras | prince of norway |
| voltemand and cornelius | members of the danish court and ambassadors to norway |
| marcellus, barnardo, francisco | members of the kings guard |
| impossibility of certainity theme | the action we expcet to see is continually postponed |
| mystery of death theme | hamlet is obsessed with death after his father dies |
| madnes theme | real and pretend madness is throughout the play |
| revenge theme | hamlet wants to get revenge for his fathers death |
| theme of family | the family members in the play |
| hatred of women motif | formed when Gertrude decided to marry Claudius; Hamlet forms this opinion about women in general and shows a particular obsession with what he perceives to be a connection between female sexuality and moral corruption |
| ears and hearing motif | difficulty of attaining true knowledge is slipperiness of language |
| ghost symbol | the way hamlet is emotionally haunted by his fathers memory; hamlets lingering memory of a lost but not forgotten loved one |
HAMLET ACT 1 AND 2 QUIZ
August 3, 2019