Act 2 Scene 2 Continued Flashcards
… and …. return from Norway: Old Norway thought Prince F. was actually going to attack the …., but discovered that this was a lie
Voltemand; Cornelius; Polish
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 …
arrests; never take arms against Denmark again; Fortinbras promises; 3 times his annual allowance; soldiers; Polish
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 ….
safe passage; Denmark; Poland; attack Poland; think about it later
Polonius: “brevity is the soul of wit”→ being concise is the .., but Polonius isn’t …
soul of charm & intellect; brief
Gertrude tells Polonius to stop …. and ….
decorating his speech; get to the point
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….
heavenly; idol; hot; freaks out
Hamlet also writes “in her excellent white bosom” and …. freaks out
gertrude
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
telling the truth; tell the truth; crazy; small truth
Polonius attaches his reputation to how Ophelia .
receives love
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 ….
betting his life on this; loosing; hide behind the curtain; listen in
Polonius asks Hamlet if he knows he he is. Hamlet says Polonius sells … by the …., calls him a …
fish; docks; fishmonger
This notion of selling fish is already insulting, but fishmonger is also Elizabethan slang for
pimp
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….)
maggot; honest man; dog; Polonius; maggot
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 ….
sun breeds maggots; picked on by maggots
Polonius asks Hamlet what he’s reading and Hamlet replies “….” and then insults …
words, words, words; Polonius’s age
Polonius asks, “Will you walk out of the air”, in elizabethan times this meant …., but Hamlet replies “into my grave?”
are you going outside
Polonius says everything Hamlet says is full of … and therefore questions H.’s …. he is floored by Hamlet’s …
meaning; insanity; intellect
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 ….
I give; give his life; life; persona; Ophelia
Hamlet doesn’t ask Ros and Guild why they’re here as he did with Horatio because he ….
already knows
Hamlet asks Ros and Guild how they are and they say they’re …, and in expressing this Guild personifies … (allusion)
indifferent; fortune
Guild’s personification of fortune (allusion): fortune frequently personified as …., Ros and Guild are not the button on her cap, which is good
blind woman
Hamlet says “nor the soles of her shoe?” which means
bad luck
Guild and Ros. remark that they are in fortunes …, and Hamlet jokes that if that is the case fortune must be a …
privates; prostitute
Hamlet calls Denmark a
prison
Hamlet refers to …., stating that there is “nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so”
moral relativity
if Hamlet truly believes in moral relativity, he is a … → person who is biologically incapable of …
sociopath; experiencing empathy
Ros. tells Hamlet that it is Hamlet’s …. that makes Denmark feel like a prison
lack of ambition
Hamlet says that Denmark is a prison because he has ….
bad dreams
bad dreams make Hamlet incapable of …., they have … over him. if you have bad dreams, your life is …
enjoying his life; power; bad
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 ….
ambition; shadow
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
sent for; high treason; Hamlet
Hamlet says that he will tell Ros and Guild why they’re here → I have not ….
been myself lately
pretext hamlet is a ….
renaissance man
Hamlet says that the world is …., the sky is full of …, but he knows that it can be and should be …
sterile; rot; different
Hamlet says people are not the …., but rather they are collections of … (…, …)
beauty of the world; dust; useless; base
“players”:
actors
Ros and Guild have apparently seen …. coming from …. Hamlet has seen these actors, he’s been to … before
actors; London; London
as an actor in the elizabethan era, they typically belonged to …., and that acting company typically belonged to …
one director; one theater
the actors are travelling even though they are good because their … wasn’t what it once was
reputation
was illegal for women to play women on stage, so … acted as “female” actors
little boys
there were …. with older men, and for boys who needed to keep their high-pitched voices to continue acting, they underwent ….
romantic scenes; castration
Elizabethans aren’t going to playhouses because of the
romantic scenes between little boys and older men
Hamlet says it’s not so strange that boys are playing women because
Claudius is king
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
picture of him; necks; paying for his picture
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 ….)
friend; spy; see right through you
Hamlet calls Polonius ….
Jephthah
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 ….
die once he comes home; accidentally kills him
Hamlet says Polonius doesn’t …
love his daughter
Actors arrive, H. sees a young boy he saw before who is now older and …. for the boy’s ….
fears; fate
Hamlet asks for a speech from the actors from a play that wasn’t ….
this play was like …, many don’t like it
popular; caviar
this play was unpopular because it was …., a historical play about the ….
inaccessible; trojan war (not intended to be for general public)
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 …
Pyrrhus kills Priam
Pyrrhus begins killing people, is splashed with …. and is walking through streets looking for …. → this scene seems like Hamlet’s …
blood; King of Troy; revenge fantasy
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 ….
crumble; stops; calm before the storm
in this play with pyrrhus, fortune is referred to as …. (…), which echoes Hamlet’s language, indicating that this play was already ….
strumpet; prostitute; on his mind
perhaps Hamlet already knew the actors were coming, perhaps he
planned this scene recounting
Hamlet now wants actor to continue to part with
Hecuba
Hecuba: … wife, …. of …
Priam’s; queen; Troy
“mobled queen”: mobled is a word Shakespeare …, refers to moment right before …
invented; crying begins
Hecuba runs out of the house with a …. only and watches as Pyrrhus …. Priam, and it takes her a while to ….
blanket; minces; start crying
this scene with Hecuba watching Pyrrhus mince Priam indicates that Hamlet wants Gertrude to …. Perhaps he wants her to watch him …
suffer kill Claudius
