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1 TEST REVIEW: Author Information /
Hamlet TEST REVIEW: Author Information / Use of Foils / Literary Devices / Quotations / Questions for Acts I - V

2 SHAKESPEARE Born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23 (?), 1564; died on April 23, 1616 Wrote at least 37 plays and at least 150 sonnets Hamlet is his longest play; it may have been named after his son Hamnet, who died of the plague around the time it was first performed

3 Foils Fortinbras—is bold Claudius—is calm
Horatio—is a Stoic, showing little emotion Laertes—skilled fencer; kills against his conscience Claudius—plots against Hamlet secretly Hamlet—hesitates to act Hamlet—is emotional Hamlet—is passionate Hamlet—less skilled fencer; kills to follow his conscience Hamlet—attacks Claudius openly in Act V

4 More FOILS Horatio—wise
Horatio—follows Prince Hamlet of his own free will Gertrude—wife of two kings and mother of Hamlet King Hamlet—handsome man; bold warrior Polonius—biased Rosencrantz & Guildenstern—follow King Claudius’s orders Ophelia—innocent young maiden King Claudius—plain man; calm negotiator

5 Hamlet Quotations: Literary Devices
“Frailty, thy name is woman!” (personification) “…be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow…” (simile) “When he is drunk asleep…then trip him…that his soul may be as damned and black as hell…” (simile) ”O shame! Where is thy blush?” (personification) “I loved Ophelia…40,000 brothers…” (hyperbole) …”this fell sergeant, Death, is strict…” (personification) “If it be now…if it be not to come…” (repetition)

6 Hamlet Quotations: Rhymed Couplets
“Foul deeds will rise / …to men’s eyes” The time is out of joint…/…born to set it right!” The play’s the thing…/…conscience of the king.” “I must be cruel, only to be kind / …worse remains behind.” (also paradox) “Let Hercules himself…/…dog will have his day.” (also allusion)

7 Hamlet Quotations: Theme
“Frailty, thy name is woman!” (Weakness) “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio…” (Weakness) “The time is out of joint. O cursed spite!” (Fate) “The play’s the thing / Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.” (Corruption) “…be thou as chaste as ice…thou shalt not escape…” (Weakness)

8 Hamlet Quotations: Theme
““When he is drunk asleep, or in his rage…” (Corruption) “O shame! Where is thy blush?” (Weakness) “Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him...” (Mortality) “There’s a divinity that shapes our ends…” (Fate) “If it be now, ‘tis not to come…”(Fate) …”this fell sergeant, Death, is strict…” (Mortality)

9 Quotations: Polonius “Neither a borrower nor a lender be; / For loan oft loses both itself and friend.” “This above all: to thine own self be true, / And it must follow, as the night the day, / Thou canst not then be false to any man.” “Brevity is the soul of wit.” “Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.”

10 Quotations: Claudius “Thou know’st ‘tis common, all that lives must die…” “O, my offense is rank; it smells to heaven; / It hath the primal eldest curse upon’t…” “My words fly up, my thoughts remain below / Words without thoughts ne’er to heaven go.” “When sorrows come, they come not single spies…”

11 Quotations: Ophelia “…to the noble mind / Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind…” “Lord, we know what we are, / But know not what we may be.” “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance. / Pray you, love, remember.”

12 Quotations: Gertrude “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
“Sweets to the sweet. Farewell!”

13 Quotations: Laertes “O heavens! Is’t possible a young maid’s wits / Should be as mortal as an old man’s life?” “Lay her i’ the earth / And from her fair and unpolluted flesh / May violets spring!” “Hold off the earth…/ ‘Til I have caught her once more in mine arms. / Now pile your dust upon / The quick and the dead…”

14 Quotations: Ghost “Murder most foul, as in the best it is; / But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.” “This visitation is but to whet thy almost blunted purpose.”

15 Quotation: Horatio “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, / And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.”

16 Quotation: Marcellus “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

17 ACT I In scene i, young Prince Fortinbras of Norway…
Why might a ghost walk the earth? _____ is asked to speak to the ghost because_____. Hamlet reluctantly agrees to honor his _____’s request by _____. Hamlet tells the audience that he is heartsick because his father has died AND… When the guards tell him of his father’s ghost, Hamlet predicts… In scene iii, both Laertes and Polonius warn Ophelia that… Ophelia’s reaction is to… When the ghost appears, Horatio and Marcellus try to… When they are alone, the ghost tells Hamlet that he was _____ by _____.

18 ACT II In scene i, Polonius sends Reynaldo to France to…
Ophelia rushes in to tell her father that… Polonius attributes this behavior to… Claudius and Gertrude ask _____to watch Hamlet. Claudius and Polonius arranged to spy on Hamlet’s conversation with… Hamlet pressures Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to admit that… Hamlet tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that… Hamlet deliberately convinces Polonius that… Hamlet scolds himself because… At the end of Act II, Hamlet plans to expose the murderer’s guilt by…

19 ACT III In scene i, Queen Gertrude expresses her hope that…
In what ways does Hamlet insult and warn Ophelia? Ophelia is convinced that Hamlet… Polonius and King Claudius decide… Hamlet gives Horatio the important task of… The name of the play within the play is… Hamlet believes that the play… King Claudius delivers a soliloquy in which he admits _____, tries to _____, and says that he cannot obtain forgiveness because he cannot _____. Hamlet decides not to avenge his father’s murder at this time because… Hamlet stabs _____ through the curtain in his mother’s room because…

20 ACT IV In scene i, King Claudius sends _____ and _____ to find _____’s body and bring _____ to him. King Claudius secretly plans to send Hamlet to _____ in order to _____. Hamlet unfavorably compares himself with Fortinbras in what way? Queen Gertrude is reluctant to see Ophelia because… Laertes is enraged and grief-stricken for what 3 reasons? How has Hamlet been “rescued”? What will happen to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? What will Hamlet do next? King Claudius reassures Laertes that… The king tells Laertes that Hamlet admires him because Laertes is… Which methods will Claudius and Laertes use to kill Hamlet? At the end of the scene, Queen Gertrude tells Laertes that Ophelia…

21 ACT V In scene v, the clowns are digging _____’s grave.
The gravedigger tells Hamlet that the skull is that of… Ophelia’s funeral rites are shortened because… Hamlet has a premonition that… Hamlet and Laertes agree to… _____accidentally drinks the poisoned cup that was intended for Hamlet. After he mortally wounds Hamlet, _____ meets the same fate, and he admits that he is “justly killed with mine own treachery.” In the end, Hamlet avenges his father’s death by killing _____ in what 2 ways? As Hamlet is dying, he asks _____ to “draw thy breath in pain / To tell my story.” At the end of the play, the audience learns of the execution of _____ and _____and that _____ will be the new king of Denmark.

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