How has Laertes been doing in Paris? | run out of money |
who is Polonius sending to Paris? | Reynaldo, Polonius’s servant |
What is Reynaldo’s two jobs? | get Laertes’ money and to inquire among the Danish people there to find out what Laertes has been up to |
How is Reynaldo going to find this out? | find Danish people, make up something about Laertes (gambling, drinking, prostitutes), then person will agree or disagree |
What was Ophelia doing when Hamlet entered? | sewing in her room |
How did Hamlet look? | his jacket is all unfastened, not wearing a hat, stockings are dirty and around his ankles, pale, knees knocking together |
Describe what Hamlet did in her presence. | grabbed her wrist, stares at her, shakes her arm, shakes head up and down 3X, sighed, walks out door without looking |
What does Polonius believe has caused Hamlet to act this way? | love/ Polonius’s refusal |
Who have the King and Queen summoned to spy on Hamlet? What is their relation to Hamlet? | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern; boyhood friends |
Where were the two boys previously? | the university of Wittenberg |
What are the two boys going to find out? | what has caused the change in Hamlet’s behavior |
How are they going to do this? | do fun things with Hamlet- things he would enjoy |
What will the King and Queen do if successful? | reward them |
What two bits of information does Polonius have for the King | 1.Voltemand and Cornelius have returned from Norway2. He feels he has discovered why Hamlet is acting the way he is |
Which thing does Claudius want to hear about first? What does Polonius start with? | “Hamlet’s lunacy”; C and V |
What wise thing does the queen suggest about Hamlet? | The queen says that what is the cause of his madness is his father’s death and their hasty marriage |
What news did Voltemand and Cornelius bring about the King of Norway? | he looked into the actions of young Fortinbras, who was in fact planning to attack; the king ordered him to stop; young Fortinbras vowed to stop and not attack again |
What did the King of Norway do to reward young Fortinbras for his vow? | money in an annual fee; can be used to attack Poland instead |
What is the King of Norway asking of Claudius? response? | safe passage through Denmark to Poland; will think about it |
What does Polonius share with Claudius regarding Ophelia/Hamlet? What is the purpose of doing this? | the love letter that Hamlet had given to Ophelia; prove that Hamlet does love Ophelia and how Ophelia gave |
What ironic thing does Polonius say regarding the letter? | “Since brevity is the soul of wit”- Polonius is never brief |
What does Polonius list as the classic stages of love madness? | 1. person becomes sad2. falls into a fast- doesn’t eat3. can’t sleep4. becomes weak or lightheaded5. goes insane |
What do Claudius and Polonius plan to do to proves Hamlet’s love madness? | Hamlet likes to go into the lobby to read a book for 4 hours; send Ophelia in; hide behind curtain and eavesdrop |
What do we discover about Hamlet in his conversation with Polonius? | how witty and sarcastic Hamlet can be |
What name does Hamlet call Polonius? What does this mean? | fishmonger (a pimp) |
How else does Hamlet mess with Polonius? What is Polonius’s reaction? | asks if he has a daughter-says don’t let her come out into the sun because she could get pregnant; thinking Hamlet really is mad, and says he was once young and mad in love too |
How does Hamlet describe the book he’s reading? | its about slander; old man, wrinkled face, describing polonius |
When Polonius says “I’m going to take leave of you,” what does Hamlet respond with? | you can’t take anything from me |
What does Hamlet call P after he has left? | an old fool |
What does Hamlet ask R and G? | why they have come to visit |
How does Hamlet refer to Denmark? Why? | a prison; he’s not allowed to leave and return to school |
Why does Rosencrantz think Denmark is a prison to Hamlet? | his ambition to claim the throne |
What do the two admit? | they were sent for by the king and queen |
What do the two inform Hamlet of after he says nothing makes him happy anymore? | that the players that he enjoyed, the tragedians in the city, are coming |
Why are the players travelling? | a new company of child actors have replaced them in the city |
As a preview of their performance, what has Hamlet requested? | a speech from a play he admires it |
What is the speech about? | the story of the Trojan war |
In the story of the Trojan war, who is telling the story? to who? | the surviving Trojan prince, Aeneas; Dido, the queen of Carthage |
Who is Aeneas’s father (according to Ms. Saucier and not Mary Grace) | King Priam |
What happened to King Priam? | slaughtered by Greek soldier, Prius |
What was happening in Troy? | the city was being sacked and burned by the Greeks |
What is happening in the first part of the speech | describing Prius, dressed in black, covered in the blood of his victims, searching for the king |
What part of the speech does the first player tell? | Priam’s wife, Hecuba, witnesses her husband’s murder and her wailing would have brought tears to the eyes of the gods |
How is the first player feeling? | so emotional that his face is flushed and is crying real tears |
What does Hamlet tell Polonius do? | take the players to their rooms |
What two things does Hamlet request of | the play “the murder of Gonzago”asks him to memorize a speech of some 12-16 lines that Hamlet is going to write and insert into the play |
Hamlet Act 2
August 25, 2019