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Act 2 Scene 2 Continued Flashcards

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… and …. return from Norway: Old Norway thought Prince F. was actually going to attack the …., but discovered that this was a lie

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Voltemand; Cornelius; Polish

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Old Norway … Prince F., makes him legally swear never to …. and is overcome with joy when …., so he gives Prince F. … and access to … to use them against …

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arrests; never take arms against Denmark again; Fortinbras promises; 3 times his annual allowance; soldiers; Polish

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Old Norway also wants Claudius to give Prince Fortinbras …. through .. to …
Prince F. obviously would use this opportunity to …., but Cl. simply says he’ll ….

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safe passage; Denmark; Poland; attack Poland; think about it later

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Polonius: “brevity is the soul of wit”→ being concise is the .., but Polonius isn’t …

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soul of charm & intellect; brief

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Gertrude tells Polonius to stop …. and ….

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decorating his speech; get to the point

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Polonius has letter Hamlet gave to Ophelia and is reading this to uncle & mom:
Hamlet calls Ophelia …. and his soul’s …., but also calls her “beautified” which basically means …. and Polonius….

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heavenly; idol; hot; freaks out

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Hamlet also writes “in her excellent white bosom” and …. freaks out

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gertrude

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Hamlet tells Ophelia someone’s lying if they say they’re …. and if they say they’re lying, they’re trying to ….
Hamlet is trying to tell her he’s not actually …., he’s telling a …, even though at face value he sounds crazy

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telling the truth; tell the truth; crazy; small truth

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Polonius attaches his reputation to how Ophelia .

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receives love

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Polonius remains convinced that Hamlet’s problem must be unrequited love and he is ….. He will test his theory by “….” Ophelia to Hamlet while he and King Cl. will …. and ….

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betting his life on this; loosing; hide behind the curtain; listen in

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Polonius asks Hamlet if he knows he he is. Hamlet says Polonius sells … by the …., calls him a …

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fish; docks; fishmonger

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This notion of selling fish is already insulting, but fishmonger is also Elizabethan slang for

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pimp

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Hamlet says: “To be honest […] is to be one man picked out of ten thousand,” and then says “For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog[…]”
there is 1 dead dog in Hamlet’s sentence, and many maggots –> Hamlet is indirectly calling Polonius a …, where Hamlet is the … (the …) getting picked on by …(the….)

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maggot; honest man; dog; Polonius; maggot

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Hamlet asks if Polonius has a daughter and says if he does, she shouldn’t go out in the sun → reference to his statement that “….”, Ophelia will be picked on by ….

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sun breeds maggots; picked on by maggots

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Polonius asks Hamlet what he’s reading and Hamlet replies “….” and then insults …

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words, words, words; Polonius’s age

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Polonius asks, “Will you walk out of the air”, in elizabethan times this meant …., but Hamlet replies “into my grave?”

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are you going outside

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Polonius says everything Hamlet says is full of … and therefore questions H.’s …. he is floored by Hamlet’s …

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meaning; insanity; intellect

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Polonius says “I will take my leave of you” but Hamlet twists words to say you can’t take anything from me except that which …, says he will willingly … → Polonius has taken Hamlet’s …. from him, as Hamlet must now put on …. and can’t have ….

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I give; give his life; life; persona; Ophelia

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Hamlet doesn’t ask Ros and Guild why they’re here as he did with Horatio because he ….

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already knows

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Hamlet asks Ros and Guild how they are and they say they’re …, and in expressing this Guild personifies … (allusion)

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indifferent; fortune

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Guild’s personification of fortune (allusion): fortune frequently personified as …., Ros and Guild are not the button on her cap, which is good

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blind woman

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Hamlet says “nor the soles of her shoe?” which means

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bad luck

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Guild and Ros. remark that they are in fortunes …, and Hamlet jokes that if that is the case fortune must be a …

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privates; prostitute

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Hamlet calls Denmark a

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prison

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Hamlet refers to …., stating that there is “nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so”

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moral relativity

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if Hamlet truly believes in moral relativity, he is a … → person who is biologically incapable of …

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sociopath; experiencing empathy

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Ros. tells Hamlet that it is Hamlet’s …. that makes Denmark feel like a prison

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lack of ambition

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Hamlet says that Denmark is a prison because he has ….

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bad dreams

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bad dreams make Hamlet incapable of …., they have … over him. if you have bad dreams, your life is …

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enjoying his life; power; bad

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Guild says dreams are … (he’s referring to dreams as …), but Hamlet is thinking of all versions of dreams when he describes a dream as a ….

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ambition; shadow

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Hamlet asked 3 times why Ros and Guild are there, and they admit that they were …., this admission is ….
They now work for …., but have no legit use anymore

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sent for; high treason; Hamlet

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Hamlet says that he will tell Ros and Guild why they’re here → I have not ….

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been myself lately

33
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pretext hamlet is a ….

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renaissance man

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Hamlet says that the world is …., the sky is full of …, but he knows that it can be and should be …

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sterile; rot; different

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Hamlet says people are not the …., but rather they are collections of … (…, …)

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beauty of the world; dust; useless; base

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“players”:

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actors

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Ros and Guild have apparently seen …. coming from …. Hamlet has seen these actors, he’s been to … before

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actors; London; London

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as an actor in the elizabethan era, they typically belonged to …., and that acting company typically belonged to …

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one director; one theater

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the actors are travelling even though they are good because their … wasn’t what it once was

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reputation

40
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was illegal for women to play women on stage, so … acted as “female” actors

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little boys

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there were …. with older men, and for boys who needed to keep their high-pitched voices to continue acting, they underwent ….

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romantic scenes; castration

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Elizabethans aren’t going to playhouses because of the

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romantic scenes between little boys and older men

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Hamlet says it’s not so strange that boys are playing women because

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Claudius is king

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a way to honor king was to wear a …. around their …, people used to make fun of Claudius but are now … →as strange as the boy-girl actors

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picture of him; necks; paying for his picture

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Hamlet: “I know a hawk from a handsaw” → even though I’m crazy, I can tell the difference between 2 unlike things, between a … and a… (I ….)

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friend; spy; see right through you

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Hamlet calls Polonius ….

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Jephthah

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Jephthah was Biblical figure who makes a deal with God that if he survives the war, he can ….. 1st person Jephthah saw was his daughter who ….

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die once he comes home; accidentally kills him

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Hamlet says Polonius doesn’t …

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love his daughter

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Actors arrive, H. sees a young boy he saw before who is now older and …. for the boy’s ….

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fears; fate

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Hamlet asks for a speech from the actors from a play that wasn’t ….
this play was like …, many don’t like it

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popular; caviar

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this play was unpopular because it was …., a historical play about the ….

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inaccessible; trojan war (not intended to be for general public)

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the speech hamlet asks actor to recite is a moment from war right after soldiers drop from horse and kill everyone, particularly when the soldier …

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Pyrrhus kills Priam

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Pyrrhus begins killing people, is splashed with …. and is walking through streets looking for …. → this scene seems like Hamlet’s …

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blood; King of Troy; revenge fantasy

54
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1st player continues from where Hamlet stops:
Priam lying beneath the sword of Pyrrhus, at this moment Phyrrhus hears the city …. behind him and momentarily …, this is the eerie ….

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crumble; stops; calm before the storm

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in this play with pyrrhus, fortune is referred to as …. (…), which echoes Hamlet’s language, indicating that this play was already ….

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strumpet; prostitute; on his mind

56
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perhaps Hamlet already knew the actors were coming, perhaps he

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planned this scene recounting

57
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Hamlet now wants actor to continue to part with

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Hecuba

58
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Hecuba: … wife, …. of …

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Priam’s; queen; Troy

59
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“mobled queen”: mobled is a word Shakespeare …, refers to moment right before …

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invented; crying begins

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Hecuba runs out of the house with a …. only and watches as Pyrrhus …. Priam, and it takes her a while to ….

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blanket; minces; start crying

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this scene with Hecuba watching Pyrrhus mince Priam indicates that Hamlet wants Gertrude to …. Perhaps he wants her to watch him …

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suffer kill Claudius

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