HAMLET Acts 3, 4, & 5 Review

Act 3  Characters:  Hamlet  Claudius  Gertrude  Polonius  Ophelia  Sequencing:  Chronology  Know the order of events of major plot points  Quotes:  “…thous hast cleft my heart in twain” (III,iv,172).  “Get thee to a nunnery. Why woulds’t thou be a breeder of sinners?” (III,i,130).  “O woe is me t’have seen what I have seen…” (III,i,168).  “Oh, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven…” (III,iii,39).  “I have in quick determination thus set it down: he shall with speed to England…” (III,i,176).

Act 4  Characters:  Hamlet  Claudius  Gertrude  Polonius  Ophelia  Laertes  Horatio  Sequencing:  Chronology  Know the order of events of major plot points  Quotes:  “…I shall live and tell him to his teeth, ‘Thus diest though’” (IV,vii,59).  “Take you me for a sponge my lord?” (IV,ii,13).  “…I’ll have prepared him a chalice for the nonce, whereon but sipping, if he by chance escape your venom stuck, our purpose may hold there” (IV,vii,174).  “A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm” (IV,iii,30).  “There’s fennel for you, and columbines. There’s rue for you. And here’s some for me” (IV,v,194).

Act 5  Characters:  Hamlet  Claudius  Gertrude  Yorick  Ophelia  Osric  Horatio  Gravedigger  Laertes  Young Fortinbras  Sequencing:  Chronology  Know the order of events of major plot points  Quotes:  “…I found, Horatio—ah royal knavery!—an exact command…that on the supervise…my head should be struck off” (V,ii,19-26).  “I am justly killed with mine own treachery” (V,ii,314).  “With sorrow I embrace my fortune. I have some rights of memory in this kingdom…” (V,ii,406).  “…the drink, the drink! I am poisoned” (V,ii,319).  “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince” (V,ii,373).