Act 4 Scene 6

Question 1

What does the servant bring to Horatio?

Answer 1

“Sea-faring men sir, they say they have letters for you”

Question 2

Who is the letter from?

Answer 2

“the ambassador that was bound for England” - Hamlet

Question 3

Who is the letter addressed to? Who should the sailors be sent to and why? What does this say about Horatio?

Answer 3

“Horatio, when thou shalt have overlooked this, give these fellows some means to the King, they have letters for him” - Horatio is close to the king and has networks everywhere.

Question 4

What event happened while Hamlet was on the voyage to England?

Answer 4

“A pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valor, and in the grapple I boarded them.”

Question 5

What did Hamlet become on the pirate ship?

Answer 5

“I alone became their prisoner”

Question 6

What does Hamlet tell Horatio that builds tension?

Answer 6

“yet are they much too light for the bore of the matter”
“of them I have much to tell thee”