Hamlet Act 1

Question 1

Settings

Answer 1

Hamlet takes place 10,000 years ago in the royal palace of Denmark called Eisinore

Question 2

Why do the Bernardo and Marcellus ask horario to speak to the ghost

Answer 2

Horatio is a scholar and knows Latin

Question 3

Horatio asks the ghost 5 questions

Answer 3

1 Who are you
2 Maybe you have left something undone
3 do you know the future
4 maybe you have buried treasure
5 do you know something about your death

Question 4

Explain the first question- Horatio to the ghost

Answer 4

Are you really the dead king or are you the devil in disguise

Question 5

Explain the second question- Horatio to the ghost

Answer 5

Do you have unfinished business here I would be honored to complete it for you

Question 6

Explain the third question- Horatio to the ghost

Answer 6

Do you know something about the future of this country that can help us

Question 7

Explain the fourth question- Horatio to the ghost

Answer 7

Tell me where your buried treasure is and I’ll retrieve it for you

Question 8

Explain the fifth question - Horatio to the ghost

Answer 8

Did you come back to tell us something about your death that we didn’t know about (this question wasn’t rly asked cause there was no time but he was supposed to ask this)

Question 9

Who is planning to attack Denmark

Answer 9

Fortinbras the prince of Norway is going behind his father, the kings back (the king is sick), and trying to win back his land

Question 10

What is Denmark doing in anticipation to this attack (2)

Answer 10

Horatio increases the guards and starts to make more weapons (24 hrs a day)

Question 11

Define apparition

Answer 11

Ghost

Question 12

4 issues the king Claudius addressed in his opening speech

Answer 12

1 he married his sister in law which according to the Catholic Church she’s his sister so he thanks them for allowing him to marry her
2 Fortinbras thinks he doesn’t know how to rule so Claudius is proving him wrong
3 laertis the son of polonius, the kings advisor, asks the king for permission to go to Paris as a courtesy
4 hamlet is depressed and Claudius tells him to move on that it’s been the way of the world since the first corpse - this is a biblical allusion to Cain and Abel - this might be hinting to him killing the king

Question 13

Explain “a little more then kin and less then kind” - hamlet to Claudius

Answer 13

Hamlet says yes we are technically related but I don’t like you

Question 14

Explain “this is too too solid flesh would melt” - hamlet soliloquy

Answer 14

Hamlet wants to commit suicide but it goes against his religious beliefs

Question 15

Explain “tis an unweeded garden to seed things gross and rank in nature” - hamlets soliloquy

Answer 15

This is an example of decay imagery - hamlet is disgusted with the world and his mother

Question 16

Explain “when my mother carried the kings coffin she wore new shoes and they were still new when she wore them to her wedding” - hamlets soliloquy

Answer 16

The time between the wedding and the funeral was so short that the shoes she wore to the funeral were still like brand new when she wore them to her wedding

Question 17

Explain “she cried bitter tears by the funeral and by the wedding the salt was still in her eyes they were still red” - hamlets soliloquy

Answer 17

The time between the funeral was so short that the same tears she cried by the funeral were still in her eyes by her wedding

Question 18

Explain “thrift thrift Horatio the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish the marriage tables” - hamlet to Horatio

Answer 18

Again hamlet is explaining how quickly the marriage happened after the funeral

Question 19

What does laertis tell ophelia

Answer 19

He tells her to be careful around hamlet cause she’s not royal like him and he might not be able to marry her which would bring her shame

Question 20

How does Ophelia respond to laertis warning about hamlet

Answer 20

She agrees to listen to him but also that he should consider his own advise for himself

Question 21

Explain poloniuss advice on quarreling, friendship, clothing, and borrowing and lending money

Answer 21

Be careful of who you become friends with
Don’t get into fights but if u do hold ur ground and win
Dress well but don’t be showy
Whether u lend or u borrow it lll cause u to loose so don’t do either

Question 22

Explain “springs to catch woodcocks” - polonius to Ophelia

Answer 22

Hamlet is trapping her with his words just like a spring traps a woodcock

Question 23

Explain the interaction btwn Polonius order to Ophelia

Answer 23

He orders her to stay away from hamlet and she obeys because women were portrayed as weak in tragedy’s

Question 24

According to hamlet how to drinking parties harm the image of Denmark

Answer 24

People associate others mainly with their faults rather then their accomplishments

Question 25

Why don’t Horatio and Marcellus want hamlet to follow the ghost

Answer 25

They believe the ghost will try to kill hamlet and prevent him from having an afterlife

Question 26

Why is the ghost in purgatory

Answer 26

Because he didn’t have time to Arron for his sins since he was murdered

Question 27

How did the people think the king died vs how he rly died

Answer 27

The people thought the king was poisoned by a snake bite but rly he was poisoned by Claudius- he poured a poison into his ear that cracked his skin and curdled his blood - replicating a snake bite

Question 28

What does the ghost tell hamlet to do about revenge

Answer 28

He says to take revenge on Claudius but to leave his mother, Gertrude, alone and let heaven deal with her

Question 29

What are hamlets requirements of Horatio and Marcellus (2) (s5)

Answer 29

He has them swear that they will never tell anyone about the interaction with the ghost and that they won’t let on that they know about hamlets motives

Question 30

Explain “the time is out of joint oh cursed spite that I was ever born to set it right” - hamlet to ghost

Answer 30

It doesn’t make sense it’s not normal for a brother to kill another brother and it’s annoying that I’m the one that has to deal with it now