Hamlet - Setting Flashcards

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physical setting

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  • a “prison” is Elsinore, Denmark
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tension in setting

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  • hamlet feels like he is surrounded by people he can’t get along with
  • Claudius’ work to become king has usurped Hamlet himself as the king
  • feels like his relationship with the people around him is so tense that he wants to get out and away from them
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answers

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  • he felt like he was trapped
  • elsinore
  • themes of leadership and power
  • cold weather and the starkness
  • time and place (setting)
  • in which there are many confines…
  • to keep and eye on hamlet
  • trapped
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