| Is Ophelia given a christian burial? | she is allowed to be buried in the churchyard but the priest won’t give her the same rites as the other people who died |
| why do the gravediggers say she was allowed to have a christian burial? | because she has money |
| who does the gravedigger say holds up Adam’s profession? | gardeners, ditchers, and gravediggers because they were the first gentlemen |
| who does the gravedigger say builds stronger than a mason, shipwirght, or carpenter? | (first one guesses gallows maker because its frame outlives a thousand tenants but) a gravedigger because their house lasts until doomsday |
| “custom hath made it in him a property of easiness” | Horatio about the gravedigger’s cheerfulness and singing while digging a grave |
| whose grave does the gravedigger tell Hamlet he is digging? | his (the gravedigger’s) |
| how long has the gravedigger been working as a digger? | since King Hamlet defeated Fortinbras (the day Hamlet was born) |
| where does the gravedigger tell hamlet that hamlet is? | in England to recover his wits, or if he doesn’t then it won’t matter because the men there are as mad as he is (says he lost his wits ‘strangely’) |
| why will a tanner last longer before rotting than other people? | “his hide is so tanned with his trade that he will keep out water a great while; and your water is a sore decayer of your whoreson body” (-gravedigger) |
| whose skull was the gravedigger holding? | Yorick the jester who the gravedigger hated because he poured white wine on his head, but hamlet loved because he held him on his shoulders and made everyone laugh |
| “here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.” | hamlet about Yorick the Jester |
| what does hamlet find on his ship heading to England? | he steals the letter from the king with commands to kill Hamlet and replaces it with orders to kill Rosencratz and guildenstern without giving them a chance to confess in front of a priest |
| “”tis dangerous when baser nature comes between the pass and fell incensed points of mighty opposites” | hamlet to horatio about rosencratz and guildenstern |
| who is osric? | helping the king and laertes get hamlet to fence, the courtier who talks with hamlet about how good laertes is at fencing and gets him to dual him |
| what does hamlet tell osric to do with his hat? | “put your bonnet to its right use: tis for the head”but osric will not because he says it is too hot, hamlet says its too cold but too humid and hot for his complexion |
Hamlet Act 5
August 9, 2019