February Mock Hamlet

Question 1

Charnes critic

Answer 1

‘no one in this play knows or understands anyone else’

Question 2

Olivier Gertrude

Answer 2

Cast an actress who was 11 years younger than Olivier

Question 3

It’s is not parents who control their children it is

Answer 3

Fate or children controlling their parents

Question 4

Ophelia lack of thought

Answer 4

‘I do not know my lord what I should think’

Question 5

Ophelia rejecting Hamlet following Polonius’ orders quote

Answer 5

‘But as you did command, I did repel his letters and denied his access to me’

Question 6

What does Polonius tell Reynaldo to do

Answer 6

‘By indirections find directions out’, he can use a ‘bait of falsehood’ to catch a ‘carp of truth’

Question 7

Polonius using Ophelia as bait quote

Answer 7

‘I’ll loose my daughter to him’

Question 8

Ophelia is the only character Polonius seeks to gain info without trickery

Answer 8

‘What is’t, Ophelia, he hath said to you’

Question 9

Polonius sexualises his daughter, sees her as a commodity

Answer 9

in her excellent white bosom

Question 10

Ethan Hawke 2000

Answer 10

Ophelia is physically bugged

Question 11

Ophelia is physically bugged

Answer 11

Ethan Hawke 2000

Question 12

Rebecca smith

Answer 12

‘Polonius seems to love his children. His means of actions, however, are totally corrupt’

Question 13

What does Claudius tell Hamlet his grief is

Answer 13

‘tis unmanly grief; It shows a will most incorrect to heaven’

Question 14

How is Hamlet sinning according to Claudius

Answer 14

By grieving so much

Question 15

Opportunity to kill Claudius quote

Answer 15

‘Now I might do it pat, now he is praying’

Question 16

What does Claudius praying offer

Answer 16

perfect opportunity to kill but can’t do it as Claudius is controlling him

Question 17

G. Wilson Knight

Answer 17

Claudius is a ‘good and gentle king’

Question 18

What does G Wilson Knight’s quote show

Answer 18

Claudius is trying to control Hamlet for his own good out of love and protection

Question 19

‘good and gentle king’

Answer 19

G. Wilson Knight

Question 20

Carla Stockton

Answer 20

clearly the antagonist

Question 21

How does Stockton disagree with Knight

Answer 21

Claudius controls Hamlet for his own personal gain

Question 22

David P Gontar (2014)

Answer 22

Claudius was actually Hamlet’s biological father, hence explaining why Hamlet is reluctant to kill him

Question 23

Claudius was actually Hamlet’s biological father, hence explaining why Hamlet is reluctant to kill him

Answer 23

David P Gontar (2014)

Question 24

How would you describe Act 3 Scene 4

Answer 24

Peripeteia

Question 25

What do we see and the peripeteia and who does Hamlet try to control

Answer 25

Hamlet becoming more impulsive as he takes up the mantle of a traditional revenge hero and there is a reversal of parental relationships as he seeks to control Gertrude

Question 26

Hamlet wants to interrogate Gertrude’s reasoning quote

Answer 26

And let me wring your heart

Question 27

Hamlets accusation and dramatic reveal to Gertrude

Answer 27

‘A bloody deed? Almost as bad good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother’

Question 28

Hamlet does not want Gertrude to sleep with Claudius

Answer 28

‘Good night - but go not to my uncle’s bed’

Question 29

Gertrude scared for her life due to Hamlet

Answer 29

‘Thou wilt not murder me? Help, help, ho!’

Question 30

What does Gertrude tell Hamlet about his mourning quote

Answer 30

‘tis common all lives must die’

Question 31

Gray

Answer 31

‘Gertrude is in fact protecting her son from the man who murdered her husband, the King of Denmark’

Question 32

‘Gertrude is in fact protecting her son from the man who murdered her husband, the King of Denmark’

Answer 32

Gray

Question 33

Frankcom 2014

Answer 33

Hamlet uses a gun to control Gertrude in the closet scene

Question 34

Hamlet uses a gun to control Gertrude in the closet scene

Answer 34

Frankcom 2014

Question 35

What must Hamlet do as instructed by the ghost

Answer 35

‘Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder’

Question 36

What does Hamlet suspect the ghost is quote and what does this mean

Answer 36

‘And shall I couple hell?’ - suspects the ghost is the devil, links to fate idea as it is not actually Hamlet’s father

Question 37

What is Hamlet meant to set right quote

Answer 37

‘The time is out of joint; o cursed spite that I was born to set it right’

Question 38

Rather than let his parents control him, Hamlet chooses to… quote

Answer 38

let fate control him . ‘Let be’

Question 39

What does ‘let be’ represent

Answer 39

. Has suspicions about the fight but agrees to join anyway
. Brave
. Stoic fatalism,
. Serenity in the face of death
. Hamlet is ready to die, no one has any automany over their death but he wants some control
. This is Hamlet’s anagnorisis

Question 40

What does no one have over their death

Answer 40

Autonomy but Hamlet wants some control

Question 41

By allowing fate to take over only then can Hamlet…

Answer 41

Acknowledge his rightful role and identity as King from Claudius’ control, ‘This is I Hamlet the Dane’, even though it secures his tragic destruction

Question 42

V.W. Greg

Answer 42

‘It bears internal evidence of being but a figment of Hamlet’s brain’ - the thought of and legacy of our parents is enough to control

Question 43

‘It bears internal evidence of being but a figment of Hamlet’s brain’ - the thought of and legacy of our parents is enough to control

Answer 43

V.W. Greg

Question 44

Ghost in Laurence Olivier

Answer 44

Also voiced the ghost’s lines