| “Goodnight sweet prince, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.” | Horatio |
| What is ironic about Hamlet’s decision not to kill Claudius in Act 3? | Hamlet thinks Claudius was praying, however, he was not praying after all |
| “Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.” | Ophelia |
| “I have some rights of memory in this kingdom/ Which now to claim my vantage doth invite me.” | Fortinbras |
| “Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe?” | Hamlet |
| “The lady doth protest too much methinks.” | Gerturde |
| “I must be cruel only to be kind.” | Hamlet to Gerturde |
| What is the definition of a character foil? | A character who provides contrast highlight the main character’s traits |
| “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below/ Words without thoughts never to heaven go.” | Claudius when he’s fake praying |
| Name two character foils for Hamlet | Laertes and Fortinbras |
| Name three traits of a tragic hero | – noble birth or stature- willingly takes on fate- basically good in nature |
| What classical allusions does Hamlet make in his “Alas, poor Yorick” speech that help us view him as a teenager? | Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar |
| Name the five acts of Shakespearean tragedy | I- Introduction/ ExpositionII- Complication/ Rising ActionIII- ClimaxIV- Falling ActionV- Catastrophe |
| What is deus ex machina? | Salvation from an improbable source |
| What is the deus ex machina of Act IV that serves to aid Hamlet? | Pirates attack Hamlet’s ship as it heads to England |
| Hamlet’s Act V graveyard speeches focus on what particular aspect of death? | Death is the great equalizer; all people, both great and small, will meet the same end. |
| Name three ways comic relief is provided in the play | – Osric- The gravediggers- Polonius |
| Who was Yorick in life? | The court jester |
| Hamlet reflects that, “If it be now, tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now…the readiness is all…Let be” (V.ii). What does he mean? | Death is inevitable; it will come when it comes. |
| Why does Laertes become so angry with the priest who presides over Ophelia’s funeral? | The priest says that Ophelia should not receive the proper funeral rites because she committed suicide. |
| “Was’t Hamlet wronged Laertes? Never Hamlet…Who does it then? His madness.” | Hamlet |
| “If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,Absent thee from felicity awhileAnd in this harsh world draw thy breath in painTo tell my story.” | Hamlet begging Horatio |
| “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you, love. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts.” | Ophelia |
| “To die; to sleep; To sleep? Perchance to dream! Ay, there’s the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may come…must give us pause.” | Hamlet in the “To be or not to be” soliloquy |
| “How stand I then,That have a father killed, a mother stained,Excitements of my reason and my blood,And let all sleep—while, to my shame, I seeThe imminent death of twenty thousand men,That for a fantasy and trick of fameGo to their graves like beds, fight for a plotWhereon the numbers cannot try the cause,Which is not tomb enough and continentTo hide the slain? Oh, from this time forth,My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” | Hamlet |
Hamlet Acts 3-5 Review
September 6, 2019