5,1

Question 1

What happens

Answer 1

Grave digger
Yoricks skull - futility of life

Hamlet finds our opelithias dead

Laertes and Ham fight over opthelia

Question 2

Why is scene important

Answer 2

Symbolic of hamlets funeral

Imevainlt fate

Question 3

Innocent opthelia

Answer 3

Laertes feacribes her as “fair and unpolluted flesh”

Pathos / tragic

Question 4

Hamlet and laertes

Answer 4

Parallel as both dads die

But

Laertes defends family / takes revenge and ham admired that as he hasn’t as of yet and his fate is already sealed

Question 5

What is the gravediggers function

Answer 5

Comedy and to challenge hamlets view
Relieves Element of tension / comic

His carefree attitude forces hamlet to re-evaluate his ideas about death
No respect for social class - hamlet realises thay rbetyione is equal in death when skulls look / treat the same
Everyone forgotten

Question 6

Hamlets changed

Answer 6

Everyone becomes “dust” even men like Alexander the Great.

Takes ownership of revenge instead of feeling like it’s forced upon him in act 1, scene 5

Hamlet sees own inevatisble fate like yorick

Question 7

Gravedigger careless about skulls

Answer 7

He throws out a second skull

Question 8

Hamlet questions grave digger throwing out skulls - careless

Answer 8

To have his fine pate full of fine dirt

Question 9

Hamlet realising everyone died

Answer 9

Doust tho think Alexander looked o’ this fashion I’th earth?

Alexander died, Alexander was buried , Alexander returnerth to dust, the dust is wary of earth we make loam

Circle of life