The Supernatural and natural imagery

Question 1

Shakespeare use of natural imagery

Answer 1

relates the growing of mental emotions tot hat of a garden or nature developing . enhances the allegorical connections between kingdom of Denmark and the garden of Eden.

Question 2

Ophelias use of nature before suicide

Answer 2

“There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. Pray you love remember. And there is pansies, that’s for thoughts…”

Question 3

Gertrude to Hamlet

Answer 3

“Where little fears grow great, great love grows here”

Question 4

Hamlets first encounter with the ghost

Answer 4

“I am thy father’s spirit,
Doomed for a certain term to walk the night
And for the day confined to fast in fires
Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature
Are burnt and purged away.”

Question 5

Hamlets disgust of the world in first soliloquy

Answer 5

“tis an unweeded garden
that grows to seed;things rank and gross in nature
possess it merely”

Question 6

Laertes comment on how Ophelia should think of Hamlets love. violets die quickly.

Answer 6

“A violet in the youth of primy nature”

Question 7

Laertes , again to Ophelia on relationship with Hamlet

Answer 7

“The canker galls the infants of spring

to oft before their buttons be disclosed”