Act 2 Scene 2 Flashcards
Which soliloquy appears in this part of the play?
O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
‘Must like a whore….
Unpack my heat with words’
‘I’ll have these players play something like the ….
Murder of my father before mine uncle’
‘The plays the thing
Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king’
‘The thing that I have
Seen may be a devil’
‘What’s Hecuba to him,
Or he to Hecuba?’
‘Had he had motive, and the
Cue for passion that I have?’
‘Am I a
Coward?’
‘Plucks off me beard and
Blows it in my face’
Remorseless, treacherous,
Lecherous, kindless villain!’
‘Oh
Vengeance!’
‘The instant burst of clamour that she made (…) would have made milch the burning eye of heaven’ what does this refer to?
Hecuba crying at the death of Priam
Which play does Hamlet ask the players to perform?
The Murder of Gonzago
‘And like a natural to his will and matter, did nothing’ how does this link to Hamlet’s actions?
Pyrrhus pauses for a long time before killing Priam, just has Hamlet is taking his time deliberating whether to kill Claudius or not
‘This is too long’, why is this ironic
Because Polonius always gives unnecessarily long speeches
Writhing Hamlets speech about Pyrrhus, which word link to the semantic field of violence?
Ominous, dread, dismal, tyrannous, murder, blood, gore, hellish
‘I know a hawk from
A handsaw’
Which line does Hamlet repeat after Polonius says it?
‘My lord I have news to tell you’
Which phrase mocks gossiping?
‘Buzz, buzz’
Who does Hamlet compare Polonius too, and why is this significant?
Jephtha, a military leader who sacrificed his daughter to God, this is significant because it foreshadows Ophelia’s suicide
How would you describe Hamlet’s sense of humour?
Dark, macabre
What kind of actors arrive
Child actors
‘But my uncle-father …
And aunt-mother are deceived’
Who, out of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, admits that they have been sent for?
Guildenstern
