Act (I) scene (v)

Question 1

***The ghost. Killing of his brother, against God’s law, regicide. Hamlet’s duty. until now Claudius has appeared fine

Answer 1

revenge his foul and most unnatural murder!

Question 2

***The ghost. biblical allusion to enrich the text. symbol of corruption, the devil incarnate. Moment of revelation.

Answer 2

The serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown

Question 3

The ghost. believed in the fidelity of the queen

Answer 3

my most seeming virtuous queen

Question 4

The ghost describes the murder

Answer 4

Thus was I, sleeping, by a brother’s hand, of life, of crown, of queen, at once dispatched

Question 5

Hamlet, juxtaposition and repetition. duplicitous, incomprehensible that he is evil. strategically feigns his innocence

Answer 5

O, villain, villain, smiling, damned villain… that one may smile and smile and be a villain

Question 6

Hamlet introduces the dramatic irony, tells horatio that he will feign madness and to act worried

Answer 6

To put an antic disposition on

Question 7

Hamlet wishes he didn’t have to kill a king to put back the natural order, his procrastination in born, paralysed by fear (human nature)

Answer 7

The time is out of joint, O cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right