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Question 1

Hamlet’s final pleas to Horatio

Answer 1

‘Report me and my cause alright to the unsatisifed’
ideas of REPUTATION, TRUTH, ironic because horatio IMMEDIATELY LIED TO PROTECT HAMLET - ‘he never gave commandment for {R&G} death’ - history quickly rewritten - give swhole play sense of perspective (small domestic affair affecting nation) - ALSO since HAMLET is given a soldier’s death (ultimate irony - he was awful killer, great thinker - history being misinterpreted / malleability of truth / reality)

Question 2

DEATH & RELIGION: acceptance of the way things will be (not seen before in Hamlet - changed after England) in act 5 scene 2

Answer 2

‘There’s a divinity that shapes our ends’
HAMLET believed that in his escape from the ship / killing R&G he ‘was heaven ordinant’ (directed by heaven)

Question 3

Gravediggers on Ophelia’s death

Answer 3

Is she to be buried in Christian burial, when she wilfully seeks her own salvation?’
CLOWNS - add to satirical element of the play, establish clear Christian context, ideas of IRRELIGIOUS SUICIDE (even she acted more than HAMLET)
PRIEST: ‘If this had not been a gentlewoman, she should have been out o’ Christian burial’
Shaekpsear uses COMEDY to make social commentary about the gentry, offers different perspective on Ophelia’s death

Question 4

Power of thought 2.2

Answer 4

‘There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so’

Question 5

Fortinbras as foolish 4.4 by Captain

Answer 5

‘We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit…I would not farm it’

Question 6

4.5 succession of events in Claudius words

Answer 6

’First, her father slain, next, your son gone, and he most violent author of his own just remove; the people muddied, thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers’