Theme of Mortality

Question 1

Act 1 Scene 1

Answer 1

we first meet the ghost

Question 2

Act 1 Scene 2

Answer 2

Hamlets first soliloquy - longs for death but suicide is forbidden by God

Question 3

Act 3 Scene 1

Answer 3

Hamlets ‘to be or not to be’ soliloquy, fears what happens after death

Question 4

Act 3 Scene 3

Answer 4

Hamlet goes to kill Claudius but doesn’t because he is praying - fears he will go to heaven

Question 5

Act 3 Scene 4

Answer 5

Hamlet kills Polonius

Question 6

Act 4 Scene 7

Answer 6

Ophelia drowns

Question 7

Act 5 Scene 1

Answer 7

Grave Digger scene, Ophelias funeral

Question 8

First line of Hamlets first soliloquy

Answer 8

‘O that this too solid flesh would melt’

Question 9

‘to be or not to be’

Answer 9

Hamlet fears what happens after death

Question 10

‘a villain goes to heaven, and for that, I,…’

Answer 10

‘…his sole son do this same villain send to heaven’

Question 11

‘his soul may be damned….’

Answer 11

‘…. and black as hell where to it goes’

Question 12

Ophelias death

Answer 12

‘muddy-death’ ‘mermaid-like’