Scene 2 Flashcards
What does Claudius speak in?
Iambic pentameter
What is Hamlet dressed in?
Black
‘Though yet of hamlet our dear …………. Death’
Brothers
Why does Claudius use plural voice in his speech in 1.2?
To unite the royal court, suggesting that they share the same grief
‘Memory be ……..’
Green
‘To bear our…’
Hearts in grief
‘In one brow of…’
Woe
‘Claudius shows every sign of being an excellent …… and king’ (Knight)
Diplomat
How does Claudius deal with the threat of Young Fortinbras?
In a diplomatic way, choosing to writer to Norway (the uncle of young Fortinbras)
‘With an auspicious and a dropping ….’
Eye
‘Nor have we herein barr’d your…;
Between wisdoms
In the Branagh version, what does Claudius do with the letter to show strength?
He tears it up
How is Claudius different to old Hamlet?
He’s much more diplomatic then the violent, warrior like old Hamlet
Hamlet is dressed in ‘suits of ……… black’
Solemn
What words does Claudius use to appear balanced and logical?
‘Therefore/ though/ yet’
‘………… madam? Nay, it is. I know not ‘………’
Seems / seems
‘A little more than kin, and less than …..’
Kind
‘I have than within which passes …….’
Show
‘Ay, ……… it is common’
Madam
What formal term does hamlet call his mother?
Madam
What technique is ‘a little more than kin, and less than kind’
A pun
What negator does hamlet repeat to his mother?
Nor
‘But i have that within which passes …….. these but the trappings and the suits of ……’
Show / woe
‘For they are actions that a man might …..’
Play
The play is mainly defined by…
Soliloquy
‘Too sullied …….’
Flesh
What doe Hamlets soliloquy introduce?
The motif of decay and disease
‘Weary, stale, flat and …..’
Unprofitable
‘Tis an unweeded ……’
Garden
‘Things ….. and …….. in nature’
Rank / gross
‘Hyperion to a ……’
Satyr
Who is Hyperion
The sun god
Why does Hamlet compare his father to Hyperion?
To suggest that his father was the centre of his universe and to introduce filial duty
What is a satyr?
A lustful half man, half goat
‘Frailty, thy name is….’
Woman
‘A ……… that wants discourse of reason who have mourn’d longer’
Beast
Which figure may have influenced Gertrude?
Mary Queen of Scots
What did mary do that is similar to Gertrude?
Failed to serve a proper mourning period for her husband and married the man that was accused of murdering her husband
Where is Laertes allowed to go back to?
University of Paris
Who is polonious?
A royal advisor and father to laertes and Ophelia
‘A ……. In the youth of primy nature’
Violet
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