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1
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list 4 ways in which an atmosphere of tension is created in a1 s1

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  • midnight and darkness as characters cannot see each other
  • soldiers are on watch for attack
  • series of questions being asked
  • ghost appearance
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list four ways the ghost is characterised in a1 s1

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  • appearing three nights in a row
  • delay of speech
  • appearance being seen as a ‘strange eruption’
  • wearing armour and swords although image of a ghost
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what important themes are introduced in a1 s1

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death, uncertainty, good and evil, supernatural, betrayal, light and dark

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what important motifs are introduced in a1 s1

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theatrical language, dead fathers, duets, duels

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list the interruptions that occur in a1 s1

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  • the ghost’s appearance interrupting barnardo’s story
  • the crowing cock
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what are the characters introduced in a1 s1

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horatio, the ghost/ old hamlet , barnado

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what language methods are used in a1 s1

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questions, interruptions, half lines, dichotomy,

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list the symbolic images in a1 s1

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death of old hamlet
war of denmark
the crowing cock
the number three

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list the contrasting pairs shown in a1 s1

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horatio and hamlet: stoic and sceptic
heaven and earth
dark and light
good and evil

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who are the characters introduced in a1 s2

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claudius, gertrude, hamlet

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list the language techniques in claudius’s speech

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  • overusing names
  • unnecessary repetitions - laertes’s name stressed four times in nine lines
  • contortion of syntax
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list the images associated with the scene in a1 s2

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mouths, stomachs, eating to demonstrate gluttony

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what relationship is focused on in a1 s2

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familial love: incest and unconventional

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what is the first type of murder that occurs in hamlet

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fratricide: killing one’s brother or sister

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list the ways claudius is characterised in a1 s2

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  • insincere
  • attention seeking with his speech focusing only on him
  • manipulative
  • duplicitous via his inner conflicts
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list the ways hamlet is characterised in a1 s2

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  • sensitive
  • feeling of reject/ neglection
  • disappointed with his mother’s actions
  • problematic and dramatic
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what language techniques are demonstrated in hamlet’s aside in a1 s2

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word play, linguistic proverbs, doubles

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how is hamlet demonstrated through his first aside

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expressing his inner feelings of being cut off from those around him

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what important themes are introduced in a1 s2

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royalty, deception, incest, mother and son relationship

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what important motifs are introduced in a1 s2

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familial love, speeches, communication via asides,

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list the characters introduced in a1 s3

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ophelia, polonius, laertes

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list the ways ophelia is characterised in a1 s3

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short speech, sensitive, quiet, obedient

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list the ways polonius is characterised in a1 s3

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rambler, submissive, knowledgeable, self assured

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list the ways laertes is characterised in a1 s3

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speaking in longwinded speeches, traditional son, academic

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what important themes are shown in a1 s3

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familial love, patriarchy, disapproval

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what role does polonius have in the court of elsinore

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being the messenger and role jester of the king

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what important motifs are seen in a1 s3

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truth, memory, appearance vs reality

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what language techniques are utilised in a1 s3

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creating levels of suspense,irony, word play, long winded speech

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list the dynamic of relationships in a1 s3

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  • sibling relationship
  • father and daughter relationship
  • father and son relationship
  • romantic relationship
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30
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list the foil to the character of hamlet introduced in a1 s3

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laertes

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31
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list the language techniques used in a1 s4

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  • juxtaposition
  • interruptions
  • cut speeches
  • paradoxes
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list the ways hamlet is characterised in a1 s4

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feigning madness, curiosity, idolises his father

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what effect is used in a1 s4 to set the scene

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acts as a duplication of first scene to increase suspense

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33
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list the way the ghost of old hamlet is characterised in a1 s4

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  • unreason
  • chaos
  • supernatural
  • image of human race
  • image of atmosphere
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list the themes in a1 s4

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  • delay
  • honour
  • evil
  • madness
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what dynamic is shown in a1 s4

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father and son relationship

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when is a1 s4 set

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at night as a duplicate of the first scene

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37
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what information does the ghost reveal in a1 s5

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being poisoned by claudius

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38
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list the language techniques associated with a1 s5

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  • metaphoric parallel
  • injunctions
  • soliloquy
  • dictions of ‘prison’ ‘ears’ weed’ ‘custom’ ‘seeing’
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39
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list the 4 ways old hamlet is seen as in a1 s5

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  • chivalric warrior
  • desire to avenge
  • genuine love for wife
  • betrayal provokes him to avenge
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40
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what does hamlet include in his second soliloquy during a1 s5

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the aim to wipe away whole past and trivial records, including ophelia

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41
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list the characters that are involved in a1 s5

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  • old hamlet
  • hamlet
  • horatio
  • ophelia via soliloquy
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42
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what important themes are shown in a1 s5

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murder/ fratricide, betrayal, loyalty

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list the characters involved in a2 s1

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  • polonius
  • reynaldo
  • ophelia
44
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what is the role of reynaldo in a2 s1

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to spy on laertes and his behaviours in paris

45
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lists the dynamics recognised in a2 s1

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  • familial
  • messenger
  • romantic but faded love
46
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what images are associated in a2 s1

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letters, mistrust, loose living, rejection, temporary feelings

47
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what leads hamlet to rejecting ophelia in a2 s1

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his previous announcement in the soliloquy that he will erase all trivial memories

48
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what is ophelia referring to with her father in a2 s1

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the letters that she rejected from hamlet and hamlet’s change in behaviour

49
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list the way hamlet is characterised in a s1 with ophelia

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  • feigning insanity
  • all clothing is misplaced
  • pale as his shirt
  • being ‘loosed out of hell’
    -shaking his legs and ophelia’s arms
49
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how does polonius define hamlet’s action in a2 s1 to ophelia

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as an ecstasy of love

50
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list the characters involved in a2 s2

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  • claudius
  • gertrude
  • rosencrantz and guildenstern
  • polonius
  • hamlet
  • the players
51
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what is the role of rosencrantz and guildenstern in a2 s2

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spy on hamlet as per the king’s orders

52
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list the themes in a2 s2

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  • incest
  • madness
  • revenge
  • betrayal
  • friendship
  • secrecy
52
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why are the players a major scene in the play

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they determine whether the murder of old hamlet was truly by claudius

53
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what are the similar motifs to old hamlet’s death and the players scene in a2 s2

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  • image of gertrude
  • the poisoning
  • the play title being ‘the murder of gonzago’
53
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list the language techniques used in a2 s2

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  • soliloquy: hamlet
  • aside
  • short, sharp sentences
  • metaphor
  • puns
  • irony
53
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list the motifs in a2 s2

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  • graves
  • earth
    -prisons
  • plays
  • death
  • doubt
54
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who are the dominating characters in a3 s1

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hamlet and ophelia

54
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what does hamlet include in his soliloquy for a3 s1

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‘to be or not to be’
- motif of suicide
- morals of royalty

54
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what is a3 s1 known as for the scene for hamlet and ophelia

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the nunnery scene

54
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list the three choices available to women shown in a3 s1 for ophelia

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  • wife
  • widow
  • nun
54
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what is repetitively said to opehlia in a3 s1

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to a nunnery,go

54
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list the ways hamlet is characterised in a3 s1

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  • cruel
  • dominant
  • feigning madness
  • traditional views (for women)
  • conflicted
54
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list the ways ophelia is characterised in a3 s1

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  • vulnerable
  • foolish
  • obedient
  • betrayed/ used
55
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what is the role of ophelia in a3 s1

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to spy and get information about hamlet’s progressive madness

55
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list the common themes in a3 s1

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  • madness
  • secrecy
  • death
  • morality
  • royalty
  • nunnery
  • beauty
68
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list the dynamics of observing individuals in a3 s2

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  • audience observes hamlet
  • hamlet observes claudius and gertrude
  • gertrude and claudius observe the players
69
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how is horatio characterised towards hamlet for a3 s2

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as stoic and refusing to be ‘passion’s slave’ in the belief of that being how a man should act

70
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list the language techniques used in the play for a3 s2

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  • rhyming couplets
  • plays
  • medieval rhetoric devices e.g. circumlocution
  • old style languages e.g. archaic diction
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what is the reason for hamlet’s vulgarity towards ophelia in a3 s2

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as a burden for all the things he wants to accuse his mother of as she would be able to hear what he says

72
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what is the effect of the prologue/ play in a3 s2

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silent parallel of old hamlet’s death
- play within a play

73
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how is hamlet characterised in a3 s2

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  • ultimate madness
  • clarity due to proving his father’s superstition
  • shift from commentator and observer to an active protagonist
74
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what common form of method is used by hamlet in a3 s2

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his fifth soliloquy in response to renewed resolving

75
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what link is used between claudius and hamlet in a3 s3

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use of a soliloquy
- irony of similarity intellectually

76
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list claudius’s realisation in his only soliloquy during a3 s3

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awareness that fratricide is the ultimate sin

77
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list 4 ways in which hamlet and claudius’s soliloquy have similarities in a3 s3

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  • the dialect
  • rhetorical use of language
  • doubles
  • contradictions
78
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what is the difference between claudius and hamlet’s soliloquy in a3 s3

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cannot resist temptation or show remorse for killing brother

79
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list the common motifs shown in a3 s3

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  • revenge
  • conflict
  • asympathy vs sympathy
  • religion
  • murder
80
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what is hamlet’s reason for not killing claudius in a3 s3

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does not want to kill him whilst praying as he will end up on heaven and not hell

81
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what is a3 s4 also known as

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the closet scene

82
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what dynamics are used in a3 s4

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  • mother and son: oedipal nature questioned
83
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how does polonius cause his own death in a3 s4

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incapability of keeping quiet as hamlet kills polonius in mistake

84
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how is polonius’s death seen as a turning point for hamlet in a3 s4

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first time hamlet acts impulsively and the outcome was heaven directed

85
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list the effects of the ghost appearing in his night gown for a3 s4

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  • protectiveness towards gertrude
  • hamlet disobeys the ghost by tackling mother
    and is punished through the ghost’s appearance
86
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list the implications of gertrude not seeing the ghost appearing in a3 s4

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  • her betrayal towards old hamlet
  • hamlet speaking to thin air: schizophrenic
  • hamlet being in touch with both living and dead: supernatural
87
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what is the shift of hamlet’s behaviour in a3 s4

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starts to act on impulse, irrational behaviour shown

88
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list the characters involved in a4 s1

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  • gertrude
  • claudius
  • guildenstern and rosencrantz
89
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what is the role of rosencrantz and guildenstern in a4 s1

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aim to find the body of polonius as hamlet has hidden it

90
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list the motifs shown in a4 s2

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  • secrecy
  • mistrust
  • afterlife
  • royalty
91
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list how hamlet is characterised in a4 s2

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  • blunt
  • threatening
  • dismissive
  • cunning
92
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what is the role of rosencrantz and guildenstern in a4 s2

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they speak to hamlet and ask for the body of polonius but instead hamlet humbles them as the ‘minions’ of claudius

93
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list the two characters involved in a4 s3

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claudius and hamlet

94
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list how the corpse of polonius’s body is described in a4 s3

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as if it has been eaten

95
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where does polonius direct hamlet towards in a4 s3

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to england as a sense of worry and to kill off hamlet

96
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what common technique of hamlet is shown in a4 s4

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hamlet’s final soliloquy as he finally result in taking revenge on claudius

97
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list the motifs used in a4 s4

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  • conflict
  • war
  • foreign countries
  • battle
  • heroism
  • honour
98
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what dynamic is focused on in a4 s4 and why

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hamlet and foil character of fortinbras
- action vs thought
- hamlet admires fortinbras for prioritisng honour and acting on impulse
- fortinbras viewed as avenging warrior

99
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list the similarity between hamlet and fortinbras shown in a4 s4

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  • fatherless
  • usurping uncles
  • next to the throne
100
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list 2 ways in which ophelia demonstrates her madness in a4 s5

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  • singing passionate songs of love and loss
  • projecting her sexuality towards everyone, especially claudius
101
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what period of time is a4 s5 assumed to be set in

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early summer
- flowers with ophelia

102
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what is seen as the driving forces for ophelia’s madness in a4 s5

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loss of her father and loss of her lover
- leads to being sexually explicit and also an innocent maiden

103
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list how laertes is characterised in a4 s5

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  • seeking revenge for his father’s death
  • furious
  • fury seeing his sister’s madness
  • determined
  • enraged
104
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what is the effect of the letter in a4 s6

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hamlet tells horatio of his capture by pirates and a battle at sea, suggesting that the death of hamlet was planned by claudius

105
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list the two reasons why claudius tells laertes not to punish hamlet in a4 s7

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  • close to his wife and hamlet’s mother, gertude: close blood link of relationship
  • people of denmark like hamlet and claudius will be given a bad reputation
106
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what is the plot of laertes and claudius in a4 s7

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to duel/ fight with eachother
- claudius will poison the drink for hamlet and poison the tip of laertes’s sword so it will kill hamlet

107
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what does hamlet reveal in a letter to claudius in a4 s7

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that he is coming back to the court of elsinore
- claudius is unaware that hamlet has manipulated and ordered for the death of rosencrantz and guildenstern

108
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who’s death is revealed by gertrude and how they die in a4 s7

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ophelia’s death is revealed as a act of committing suicide

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