| Incontinency | A lack of restraint |
| Perusal | A study, observation |
| Wanton | Extravagant, somewhat immoral |
| Abridgment | An interruption |
| Expostulate | To speak |
| Indict | To accuse |
| Paragon | A model, a perfect example |
| Perpend | To consider, to ponder |
| Pestilent | Deadly |
| Repugnant | Resistant, incompatible |
| What does Polonius ask of Renaldo? | Spy on Laertes (his son) to see the wrong he is doing |
| What does Ophelia tell Polonius? | Hamlet was acting odd |
| Why does Polonius think Hamlet is crazy? | Hamlet loves Ophelia |
| What is the dramatic irony? | The audience knows Hamlet isn’t really crazy, but Ophelia doesn’t know that. |
| Why does Gertrude think Hamlet is crazy? | Because of her marriage and his father’s death |
| Who are Rosincrantz and Guildenstern? | Old friends of Hamlet that Claudius asks to spy on Hamlet. |
| What does “I am but mad north-north-west; when the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.” | He says this to his two friends that are spying on him and he is saying he is pretending to be crazy |
| Why does Hamlet call Polonius “Jephthah, Judge of Israel”? | Because Jephthah had a daughter and he vowed he would kill the next person who came out the door and it was his daughter |
Hamlet act 2
July 16, 2019