hamlet act 5 Flashcards
act 5 scene 1 is called teh
comic relief scene
why is Ophelia at least getting a Christian burial
bc she was a noblewoman
the clown assume that ophelia has done what
committed suicide
what is the first question asked by the clowns
what is he that builds stronger than the mason, the shipwright, or the carpenter
what is the first answer to the clown’s question
gallow maker because its frame outlives a thousand of its tenants
what is the answer to the clowns riddle
a grave maker, the house that he makes lasts till dommsday
what does unyoke mean
you will be done with your work for today
“thou dost lie in’t, to be in’t and say ‘tis thine. ‘tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest.”
speaker?
significigance
pun
hamlet
what is an act of fate in scene 1
hamlet chooses to talk with horatio in the graveyard when ophelia’s funeral is happening.
“how long has the clown been a grave maker
since hamlet was born
how old is hamlet
30 years old
hamlet was born on what day
the day that king hamlet killed fortinbras
there the men are as made as he”
there?
england
how long will a tanner’s body last
9 years, one year longer than others
who’s skull is dug up
yorik’s the king’s jester
how does hamlet know yorik
he used to play with yorik and ride on his shoulders
how long has yorik been dead
23 years. he died when hamlet was 7
“now get you to my lady’s chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour”
speaker?
to who?
meaning?
that no matter how much make up woman put on, they’ll be dead one day.
hamlet to horatio
“and with such maimed rights”
speaker?
hamlet
why is the priest mad
that the king ordered ophelia a Christian burial
who is furious with the priest for giving ophelia maimed rights
laertes
“a ministering angel shall my sister be
when hou liest howling”
speaker?
meaning
laertes to priest
while my sister is in heaven you will rot in hell
“now pile your dust upon the quick and dead”
speaker?
laertes,
saying to pile the dirt on her until the mountain is super tall
“I loved ophelia. Forty thousand brothers”
speaekr?
hamlet
“there’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will”
speaker?
menaing?
hamlet
fate is fate
we can do nothing to change it
“he should the bearers put to sudden death, not shriving time allowd”
hamlet talking about the letter he replaced that says to the king of england to kill R and G
who is like polonius and how
Osric
yes man
very wordy
not very smart
“the readiness is all”
hamlet
the weapons and cup of wine are surrounded with what FL?
dramatic irony
“and when he’s not himself does wrong Laertes, the Hmalet does it not, Hamlet denies it.
who does it then? his madness.
hamlet
I stand aloof and will no reconcilement
hamlet
who gets the first hit
hamlet
after hamlet gives the first hit, what does claudius do
toasts hamlet and tells him to have a drink
who drinks from the cup instead
gertrude
who do we associate with a pearl
a union between king and queen
what happens after laertes wounds hamlet
hamlet pushes laertes, swords drop, swords swap, hamlet wounds laertes with laertes’ sword.
“i am justly kill’d with mine own treachery”
speaker/
meaning?
laertes,
poetic justice- live by cheating, die by cheating
“is thy union here”
speaker?
meaning?
hamlet says this to claudius while stabbing him and pouring poision down his throat.
what does laertes do before dying
forgives hamlet
who does hamlet first tell to set everythign straight
horatio
what is horatios reply to hamlet’s dying wish
i am more an antique roman than a dane
meaning that he will commit suicide
“he has my dying voice”
hamlet saying that fortinbras gets to be king
“he never gave commandement for their death”
horatio about hamlet talking about r and g’s death
“i have some rights of memory”
fortinbras
“o proud death what feast is twoard in thine eternal cell”
fortinbras - apostrophe to death
bodies everywhere
“for he was likely , had he been pu on
to have proved most royaL”
fortinbras about hamlet would have been a good king if he had the chance
purpose of the deaths
restore order to denmark
what did hamlet do while on the ship heading to engnald
snuck into r and g’s cabin. found the letter that warranted his death. changed the letter to say it was r and g’s death and stamped the letter with the ring of his father as it had the official seal of denmark
