quiz 24 Flashcards
What did Catherine of Aragon failed to provide that lead Henry 8th to seek a Nullification?
A living son
T/F: if an Englishman in WS”s Time believe that marrying his brothers wife would not be incest, he would also likely believe that Queen Elizabeth was not a legitimate ruler
True
What genre of drama in Elizabethan Times always had a ghost and in Avenger pretending insanity?
Revenge tragedies
To which two sins is Hamlet seriously tempted?
Suicide and revenge/murder
What motivation does Hamlet have that fortinbras and laertes do not have?
Incest (mother Marry’s father’s brother)
In terms of this tragic structure, what serious mistake by Hamlet catapults the action toward the significant misfortune?
Killing Polonius
In terms of the tragic structure, what is Hamlet’s 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 mother’s marriage to his father’s brother
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 some doubtful phrase”?
Put on an antic disposition
Against who will Fortinbras employ those soldiers?
The polaks
What is Polonius’s reference “this in obedience hath my daughter shown me”?
Reject Hamlets Love letter
T/F: Hamlet is sarcastic, saying that man is like god! The beauty of the world
True
According to Hamlet, What will happen to everyone who receives only after his dessert?
Whipping
With what does Hamlet say he will catch the conscience of the King?
A play
The king refers to his 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 can’t he be forgiven?
He still has the effects for which he did the murder
When Hamlet says, “heaven hath pleased it so to punish me with this. What action does the word this referred to?
Killing Polonius
To whom is the Queen referring he weeps for what is done?
Hamlet
According to Hamlet, what is rightly to be great a) to stir only with great argument or b) to find quarrel in a straw
B) to find quarrel in a straw
To what does Laertes vow allegiance?
The blackest devil
According to the King, revenge should have____bounds?
No
According to the doctor, with what is Ophelia allowed in a Christian burial?
Her virgin crants
In what way has heaven ordinant that Hamlet could reseal the commission?
He had his father Signet
To what does Hamlet refer saying “the readiness is all”?
Death
Who says and yet it is almost against my conscience?
Laertes
Who has hamlets dying voice to be the new King?
Fortinbras
