Hamlet - Setting Flashcards
1
Q
physical setting
A
- a “prison” is Elsinore, Denmark
2
Q
tension in setting
A
- 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
3
Q
answers
A
- 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
