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Monday, December 14, 2009
Volleyball Players
Make sure you have finished study questions for following acts: 3.1-3.2, 3.3-3.4 and 5. Come to class with review questions for the final.
Act 5
HAMLET ACT 5: Questions
1) What do you feel is the point of the gravedigger’s riddles and song? How does it fit into the play?
2) In what ways do Hamlet’s reactions to the skulls in the graveyard seem to suggest a change in his outlook? Compare Hamlet’s attitude towards Yoric to Hamlet’s attitude to Ophelia or even his father? How is it different? How is it similar?
3) How old is Hamlet? How do you know this?
4) What does the violent argument between Hamlet and Laertes add to the play?
5) What developments in Hamlet’s character are presented through the story of what happened on the boat? (V.ii 1-62). How has Hamlet changed?
6) How do Hamlet’s motives in killing Claudius seem to have shifted according to his speech beginning “Does it not, think thee…” (V.ii.63)
7) What concerns of the play are reinforced in the Osric episode? (V.ii.80-170)
8) Why does Hamlet ‘defy augury’? (V.ii.192)
9) What does Laertes say is his motive in still resenting Hamlet? How has already lost this? How does this contribute to the presentation of revenge in the play? (V.ii216-223)
10) How might the dying lines of Gertrude, Claudius and Laertes be viewed as typical of the way their characters have been presented throughout the play?
11) Who “wins” in Hamlet? How and why do you think this?
1) What do you feel is the point of the gravedigger’s riddles and song? How does it fit into the play?
2) In what ways do Hamlet’s reactions to the skulls in the graveyard seem to suggest a change in his outlook? Compare Hamlet’s attitude towards Yoric to Hamlet’s attitude to Ophelia or even his father? How is it different? How is it similar?
3) How old is Hamlet? How do you know this?
4) What does the violent argument between Hamlet and Laertes add to the play?
5) What developments in Hamlet’s character are presented through the story of what happened on the boat? (V.ii 1-62). How has Hamlet changed?
6) How do Hamlet’s motives in killing Claudius seem to have shifted according to his speech beginning “Does it not, think thee…” (V.ii.63)
7) What concerns of the play are reinforced in the Osric episode? (V.ii.80-170)
8) Why does Hamlet ‘defy augury’? (V.ii.192)
9) What does Laertes say is his motive in still resenting Hamlet? How has already lost this? How does this contribute to the presentation of revenge in the play? (V.ii216-223)
10) How might the dying lines of Gertrude, Claudius and Laertes be viewed as typical of the way their characters have been presented throughout the play?
11) Who “wins” in Hamlet? How and why do you think this?
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Hamlet 3.3 and 3.4
Hamlet
1) In what respects is the ‘play scene’ a turning point in the play?
2) Explain in detail the following parts of plot
EXPOSITION:
INCITING EVENT:
RISING ACTION:
Scenes three and four
1) What does Claudius plan to do with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hamlet?
2) What is Polonius going to do while Hamlet speaks with his mother?
3) List three important things about Claudius’ soliloquy.
a)
b)
c
4) Why is it odd that Hamlet sees the king praying?
5) Why doesn’t Hamlet take this opportunity for revenge?
Scene IV
1) Describe Polonius’ advice to Gertrude.
2) What is the significance of the following quote: “How now, a rat? Dead! For a ducat, dead!
3) What is odd about the following quote: A bloody dead; almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother.
4) Why might Gertrude say, “What have I done, that thou dar’st wag thy tongue in noise so rude against me.”
5) What descriptions does Hamlet use to compare his father and his uncle?
King Hamlet
Claudius
6) What point does Hamlet make by comparing the men?
7) What is disturbing about the following: Nay, but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed; stewed in corruption; honeying, and making love over the nasty sty.”
8) What stops Hamlet’s ranting and raving at Gertrude? What does this figure tell Hamlet?
9) By the end of the act, Hamlet has made many statements about humanity, in general. Explain a few of his points. Do his opinions reflect his madness.
10) Explain the differences between the ghost in Act I with the ghost in Act III. Why might these differences reflect Hamlet’s insanity?
1) In what respects is the ‘play scene’ a turning point in the play?
2) Explain in detail the following parts of plot
EXPOSITION:
INCITING EVENT:
RISING ACTION:
Scenes three and four
1) What does Claudius plan to do with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hamlet?
2) What is Polonius going to do while Hamlet speaks with his mother?
3) List three important things about Claudius’ soliloquy.
a)
b)
c
4) Why is it odd that Hamlet sees the king praying?
5) Why doesn’t Hamlet take this opportunity for revenge?
Scene IV
1) Describe Polonius’ advice to Gertrude.
2) What is the significance of the following quote: “How now, a rat? Dead! For a ducat, dead!
3) What is odd about the following quote: A bloody dead; almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother.
4) Why might Gertrude say, “What have I done, that thou dar’st wag thy tongue in noise so rude against me.”
5) What descriptions does Hamlet use to compare his father and his uncle?
King Hamlet
Claudius
6) What point does Hamlet make by comparing the men?
7) What is disturbing about the following: Nay, but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed; stewed in corruption; honeying, and making love over the nasty sty.”
8) What stops Hamlet’s ranting and raving at Gertrude? What does this figure tell Hamlet?
9) By the end of the act, Hamlet has made many statements about humanity, in general. Explain a few of his points. Do his opinions reflect his madness.
10) Explain the differences between the ghost in Act I with the ghost in Act III. Why might these differences reflect Hamlet’s insanity?
Monday, December 7, 2009
Act 3 Scenes 1 and 2
Hamlet Act 3 Questions for Study
Act 3
Scene 1:
1. What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern report to Polonius?
2. How does Claudius react when Polonius says, "…with devotion's visage, And pious action we do sugar o'er/ The devil himself"?
3. What plan do Polonius, Claudius and Ophelia now put into action?
4. What is the nature of Hamlet's soliloquy, lines 57-91?
5. What is Hamlet's main argument against suicide?
6. Why does Hamlet treat Ophelia as cruelly as he does? What has changed him?
7. What thinly veiled threat to Claudius does Hamlet voice, after he becomes of his hidden presence? (lines 148-150)
8. At the end of this scene, what does the King decide to do with Hamlet?
Scene 2:
9. What qualities in Horatio cause Hamlet to enlist his assistance?
10. What does Hamlet ask Horatio to do?
11. Summarize what happens in the play-within-a-play.
12. Why, in line 233, does Hamlet refer to the play-within-a-play as "The Mouse-trap"?
13. What is the King's reaction to the play?
14. In lines 354-363, to what object does Hamlet compare himself? Why?
15. As Hamlet goes to his mother at the end of this scene, what does he admonish himself
Act 3
Scene 1:
1. What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern report to Polonius?
2. How does Claudius react when Polonius says, "…with devotion's visage, And pious action we do sugar o'er/ The devil himself"?
3. What plan do Polonius, Claudius and Ophelia now put into action?
4. What is the nature of Hamlet's soliloquy, lines 57-91?
5. What is Hamlet's main argument against suicide?
6. Why does Hamlet treat Ophelia as cruelly as he does? What has changed him?
7. What thinly veiled threat to Claudius does Hamlet voice, after he becomes of his hidden presence? (lines 148-150)
8. At the end of this scene, what does the King decide to do with Hamlet?
Scene 2:
9. What qualities in Horatio cause Hamlet to enlist his assistance?
10. What does Hamlet ask Horatio to do?
11. Summarize what happens in the play-within-a-play.
12. Why, in line 233, does Hamlet refer to the play-within-a-play as "The Mouse-trap"?
13. What is the King's reaction to the play?
14. In lines 354-363, to what object does Hamlet compare himself? Why?
15. As Hamlet goes to his mother at the end of this scene, what does he admonish himself
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Study Questions for Act II
1) What does Polonius tell Reynaldo in the opening of Act II? How does he plan to trap his son?
2) What does this say about Polonius?
3) What particularly in Act II scene 1 has disturbed Ophelia?
4) Why have Rosencrantez and Guildenstern been sent to Denmark?
5) What does Hamlet ask the players to recite? How does the allusion mimic Hamlet’s position?
Identify the following speaker of the following lines and discuss to whom the lines are being delivered, and what the lines mean?
6) “No, my lord, but as you did command/ I did repel his letter, and denied his access to me”
7) “More matter less art”
8) “That I, the son of a dear father murdered,/ Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell/ Must like a whore unpack my heart with words,
9) “Your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth/ And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,/ with windlasses and with assays of bias,/ By directions find directions out.”
10) “For if the sun breeds maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion-Have you a daughter?”
11) List three metaphors (1 direct, 1 implied, 1 extended) from the play.
12) What proof does Polonius have that he believe indicates Hamlet’s love for Ophelia?
13) Explain the quote, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” How does this relate to Hamlet.
14) What is a fishmonger?
15) Who was Jephthah?
2) What does this say about Polonius?
3) What particularly in Act II scene 1 has disturbed Ophelia?
4) Why have Rosencrantez and Guildenstern been sent to Denmark?
5) What does Hamlet ask the players to recite? How does the allusion mimic Hamlet’s position?
Identify the following speaker of the following lines and discuss to whom the lines are being delivered, and what the lines mean?
6) “No, my lord, but as you did command/ I did repel his letter, and denied his access to me”
7) “More matter less art”
8) “That I, the son of a dear father murdered,/ Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell/ Must like a whore unpack my heart with words,
9) “Your bait of falsehood take this carp of truth/ And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,/ with windlasses and with assays of bias,/ By directions find directions out.”
10) “For if the sun breeds maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion-Have you a daughter?”
11) List three metaphors (1 direct, 1 implied, 1 extended) from the play.
12) What proof does Polonius have that he believe indicates Hamlet’s love for Ophelia?
13) Explain the quote, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” How does this relate to Hamlet.
14) What is a fishmonger?
15) Who was Jephthah?
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Hamlet Review
HAMLET FINAL REVIEW:
1) Define dramatic foil
2) The following characters are dramatic foils for Hamlet. Discuss in detail how?
a) Claudius
b) Gertrude
c) Laertes
d) Ophelia
e) Polonius
f) Fortinbras
3) What do Fortinbras, Hamlet and Laertes have in common?
4) Define the following: soliloquy, monologue, implied metaphor, direct metaphor, extended metaphor
5) Be able to give at least three examples of – implied metaphors, direct metaphors, extended metaphors and discuss what is being compared
6) Be able to give three examples of symbols and discuss how they work in Hamlet.
7) Be able to give at least three examples of allusions.
8) Give the four elements of a sonnet
9) Give a description (mental, physical, emotional) of the following characters:
Ghost:
Hamlet:
Gertrude:
Claudius:
Ophelia:
Laertes:
Polonius:
Reynaldo:
Horatio:
Rosencrantz:
Guildenstern:
Osric:
Fransico:
Barnado:
Marcellus:
Fortinbras:
Gravedigger:
10) Outline the plot according to Exposition, Inciting Event, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution. Make sure you know where events fall.
11) Be able to summarize the following acts in vast detail:
ACT I:
ACT II:
ACT III:
ACT IV:
ACT V:
12) How is Polonius a meddling old fool? Think about how he buts in between Ophelia and Hamlet, How he sends Reynaldo to spy on his son Laertes, How he suggests spying on Hamlet three different times.
13) Do you think Ophelia loved Hamlet? Prove this with examples from the play.
14) In Act II what does Hamlet ask the players to recite? How does the allusion mimic Hamlet’s position?
15) What is a fishmonger? Who are fishmongers in the play? Why? Who are fishmongers in the senior class.
16) Who is Jephthah?
17) Explain the quote: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
18) How is Hamlet rude to Ophelia? How is Ophelias rude to Hamlet?
19) What are some of the instructions Hamlet gives to the actors?
20) How is the “play within a play” scene a turning point in the story?
21) What are three important things about Claudius’ soliloquy?
22) What proof is there that Hamlet actually goes crazy in Act 3?
23) What is one thing Hamlet says that women do to men?
24) Discuss the meaning of the following soliloquys: ACT I SCENE ii lines 129-159
ACT III Scene 1 lines 57-91
ACT IV Scene iv lines 34-68
25) What characters are in the opening scene?
26) Describe Hamlet’s appearance in Act 1.
27) Why does Claudius need to justify him marriage in Act 1.
28) What is the continuous pun on sun? Discuss how Shakespeare and Hamlet are using it. Give some examples of its use.
29) How does Ophelia’s craziness in Act 4 reflect Hamlet’s in Act 2 and 3? How does it differ?
30) Why does Ophelia sing songs of sexual betrayal and death? What does it say about her character.
31) Why does Ophelia die? Do you think her death was accidental or suicide? Why?
32) What is the point of the gravedigger’s riddles and songs? How is the gravedigger a bit like Hamlet?
33) What is Osric’s role in the play. What concerns, Shakespeare’s concerns, does he reinforce.
34) Why does Hamlet ‘defy augury’?
35) How does the dying lines of Gertrude, Claudius and Laertes reflect the way their character has been presented throughout the play?
36) Who wins in Hamlet? Why?
37) What is the most disturbing element in Hamlet?
38) How does Hamlet reflect contemporary times?
39) What is odd about the following quote: “A bloody deed; almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother.”
40) What is disturbing about the following: “Nay, but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed; stewed in corruption; honeying, and making love over the nasty sty.”
41) What is one statement about Humanity that Hamlet makes.
42) What is important about the Pirates?
43) How does Hamlet change in Act 5?
44) Do you think Hamlet forsees his own end? Why do you think this?
45) How is Hamlet like Christ?
46) What is the purpose of Horatio?
47) What does the following quote mean:
“Alexander died, Alexander was buried/ Alexander returneth to dust; / dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto/ he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel?/ Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,?/ Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.? O, that that earth which kept the world in awe/ Should patch a wall t’ expel the winter’s flaw.”
48) Quotations from all Acts from various individuals. Be able to state who is speaking, who they are speaking to, and what they are talking about. Look over quizzes and reread important acts.
51) Describe how Hamlet changes (moods and/or temperament) in every act
52) Essay question
1) Define dramatic foil
2) The following characters are dramatic foils for Hamlet. Discuss in detail how?
a) Claudius
b) Gertrude
c) Laertes
d) Ophelia
e) Polonius
f) Fortinbras
3) What do Fortinbras, Hamlet and Laertes have in common?
4) Define the following: soliloquy, monologue, implied metaphor, direct metaphor, extended metaphor
5) Be able to give at least three examples of – implied metaphors, direct metaphors, extended metaphors and discuss what is being compared
6) Be able to give three examples of symbols and discuss how they work in Hamlet.
7) Be able to give at least three examples of allusions.
8) Give the four elements of a sonnet
9) Give a description (mental, physical, emotional) of the following characters:
Ghost:
Hamlet:
Gertrude:
Claudius:
Ophelia:
Laertes:
Polonius:
Reynaldo:
Horatio:
Rosencrantz:
Guildenstern:
Osric:
Fransico:
Barnado:
Marcellus:
Fortinbras:
Gravedigger:
10) Outline the plot according to Exposition, Inciting Event, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution. Make sure you know where events fall.
11) Be able to summarize the following acts in vast detail:
ACT I:
ACT II:
ACT III:
ACT IV:
ACT V:
12) How is Polonius a meddling old fool? Think about how he buts in between Ophelia and Hamlet, How he sends Reynaldo to spy on his son Laertes, How he suggests spying on Hamlet three different times.
13) Do you think Ophelia loved Hamlet? Prove this with examples from the play.
14) In Act II what does Hamlet ask the players to recite? How does the allusion mimic Hamlet’s position?
15) What is a fishmonger? Who are fishmongers in the play? Why? Who are fishmongers in the senior class.
16) Who is Jephthah?
17) Explain the quote: “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
18) How is Hamlet rude to Ophelia? How is Ophelias rude to Hamlet?
19) What are some of the instructions Hamlet gives to the actors?
20) How is the “play within a play” scene a turning point in the story?
21) What are three important things about Claudius’ soliloquy?
22) What proof is there that Hamlet actually goes crazy in Act 3?
23) What is one thing Hamlet says that women do to men?
24) Discuss the meaning of the following soliloquys: ACT I SCENE ii lines 129-159
ACT III Scene 1 lines 57-91
ACT IV Scene iv lines 34-68
25) What characters are in the opening scene?
26) Describe Hamlet’s appearance in Act 1.
27) Why does Claudius need to justify him marriage in Act 1.
28) What is the continuous pun on sun? Discuss how Shakespeare and Hamlet are using it. Give some examples of its use.
29) How does Ophelia’s craziness in Act 4 reflect Hamlet’s in Act 2 and 3? How does it differ?
30) Why does Ophelia sing songs of sexual betrayal and death? What does it say about her character.
31) Why does Ophelia die? Do you think her death was accidental or suicide? Why?
32) What is the point of the gravedigger’s riddles and songs? How is the gravedigger a bit like Hamlet?
33) What is Osric’s role in the play. What concerns, Shakespeare’s concerns, does he reinforce.
34) Why does Hamlet ‘defy augury’?
35) How does the dying lines of Gertrude, Claudius and Laertes reflect the way their character has been presented throughout the play?
36) Who wins in Hamlet? Why?
37) What is the most disturbing element in Hamlet?
38) How does Hamlet reflect contemporary times?
39) What is odd about the following quote: “A bloody deed; almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry with his brother.”
40) What is disturbing about the following: “Nay, but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed; stewed in corruption; honeying, and making love over the nasty sty.”
41) What is one statement about Humanity that Hamlet makes.
42) What is important about the Pirates?
43) How does Hamlet change in Act 5?
44) Do you think Hamlet forsees his own end? Why do you think this?
45) How is Hamlet like Christ?
46) What is the purpose of Horatio?
47) What does the following quote mean:
“Alexander died, Alexander was buried/ Alexander returneth to dust; / dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam whereto/ he was converted might they not stop a beer barrel?/ Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,?/ Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.? O, that that earth which kept the world in awe/ Should patch a wall t’ expel the winter’s flaw.”
48) Quotations from all Acts from various individuals. Be able to state who is speaking, who they are speaking to, and what they are talking about. Look over quizzes and reread important acts.
51) Describe how Hamlet changes (moods and/or temperament) in every act
52) Essay question
Hamlet 1.3 - 1.4
Act 1 scenes 3-4
1) What is Laertes advice to Ophelia?
2) How does “The canker galls the infants of the spring/ too oft before their buttons be disclos’d” fit into the ideology of the decaying garden?
3) What analogy does Ophelia give to her brother as an answer to his advice? What does she mean?
4) List five of the “few precepts” that Polonius gives to Laertes.
5) In lines 105-109, what is the metaphor that Polonius uses to describe Hamlet’s words of love?
6) List and explain one metaphor found in the lines 115-135.
7) What is Polonius’ command to Ophelia?
8) In scene 4, what is Hamlet talking about in lines 13-38?
9) Why doesn’t Horatio want Hamlet to follow the ghost?
10) What is Hamlet’s command to the three guards?
1) What is Laertes advice to Ophelia?
2) How does “The canker galls the infants of the spring/ too oft before their buttons be disclos’d” fit into the ideology of the decaying garden?
3) What analogy does Ophelia give to her brother as an answer to his advice? What does she mean?
4) List five of the “few precepts” that Polonius gives to Laertes.
5) In lines 105-109, what is the metaphor that Polonius uses to describe Hamlet’s words of love?
6) List and explain one metaphor found in the lines 115-135.
7) What is Polonius’ command to Ophelia?
8) In scene 4, what is Hamlet talking about in lines 13-38?
9) Why doesn’t Horatio want Hamlet to follow the ghost?
10) What is Hamlet’s command to the three guards?
Prostitution in Hamlet
The extended metaphor, motif, of prostitution appears throughout Hamlet. It goes to reinforce the idea that everyone in the play is selling themselves for something else. In some instances, such as Ophelia, it reinforces the idea of control. Polonius uses Ophelia. This prostitution backs up the moral decay of the garden and the fall of mankind.
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