Quiz 24 Flashcards
What did Catherine of Aragon fail to provide that led H8 to seek nullification?
a son
T/F: If an Englishman in WS’s time believed that marrying his brothers wife would not be incest, he would also likely think that Queen Elizabeth was not a legitimate ruler
True
What genre of drama in Elizabethan times always had a ghost and an avenger pretending insanity?
revenge tragedy
To which two sins is Hamlet tempted?
suicide and revenge
What motivation does Hamlet have that Fortinbras and Laertes do not?
INCEST
In terms of the tragic structure, what “serious mistake” by Hamlet catapults the action toward the signifigant misfortune?
killing Polonius
In terms of the tragic structure, what is Hamlets tragic strength?
conscience
Which character is the most obvious example of “Tragic Waste”?
ophelia
Which guard, Bernardo or Francisco, should challenge the other?
Francisco
T/F: According to Hamlet, the “suits of solemn black” show his true self
False
What is it that Hamlet refers to saying “It is not, nor it cannot come to good”?
his mothers mairrage
T/F: Ophelia is obviously lying when she tells her father “i shall obey my lord”
False
What does Hamlet plan to do that Horatio and Marcellus might hear him “pronouncing of some doubtful phrases”?
put on an antic disposition
Against whom will Fortinbras “employ those soldiers
Poland or Poluck
what is Polonius’s reference: “this in obedience hath my daughter shown me”?
Hamlets letter
T/F: Hamlet is sarcastic saying that a man “is like god! The beauty of the world”
True
According to Hamlet, what will happen to everyone who receives only “after his desert”?
a whipping
With what does Hamlet say He’ll catch the conscience of the king”?
the play
The king refers to his own conscience as
a heavy burden
According to Hamlet, what is the effect of conscience?
it makes cowards of us all
To whom is Ophelia most loyal, Hamlet or her father, when answering Hamlets question “where is your father”?
her father
Claudius prays “forgive me my foul murder” why cant he be forgiven?
he still posses the effects for which he committed the murder
When Hamlet says :”heaven hath pleased it so/ to punish me with this” what action does the word this refer?
Killing polonius
To whom is the Queen referring “a weeps for what is done”?
Hamlet
