ACT 5,1 GRAVEDIGGERS

Question 1

quotes on Hamlet’s vengeance

Answer 1

I his sole son do this villain to heaven
to what bases we may return

Question 2

quote on what horatio say about the gravediggers

Answer 2

custom hath it made in him a property of easiness

Question 3

quotes on how Hamlet sees death as an equalizer

Answer 3

imperious caesar…dead/turn’d to clay
Alexander returneth to dust

Question 4

quotes from previous scenes which contrast with Hamlet’s acceptance of death here

Answer 4

undiscover’d country
to be or not to be

Question 5

AO5 for gravediggers scene

Answer 5

In the final act Hamlet accepts his world and we see a different man (mack)

Question 6

analyse I his sole son do this villain to heaven

Answer 6

Hamlet no longer fears the consequences of death of his actions which enables him to enact his quest for vengeance against claudius

Question 7

analyse imperious caesar dead/ turn’d to clay and alexander returneth to dust

Answer 7

Hamlet goes through a moment of realisation and anagorisis when he begins to view death as an equaliser since all great figures die and no longer matter when they die- rationalises it

Question 8

analyse custom hath it made in him a property of easiness

Answer 8

shakespeare uses the minor characters to show how the desensitisation towards death and that Hamlet lacks is needed to carry out action. It reveals how they have been able to rationalise death overtime.