1. Ms. Davis Honor’s British Literature January 9th (B) and 10th (A)
Hamlet Introductory Activity: Using Imagery and Important Quotes to Predict Meaning
Ms. Davis
Honor’s British Literature
January 9th (B) and 10th (A)

2. Please answer the following questions about each image using complete sentences.
What would a good title for the image be? Why?
What do you notice about the figure(s) and/or setting in the image?
How does the image make you feel? Explain.

3. Image 1

4. Image 2

5. Image 3

6. Image 4

7. Image 5

8. Frailty, thy name is woman!
What do you think is the meaning of the following lines? To what type of theme do you think this line relates?
Frailty, thy name is woman!

9. What do you think is the meaning of the following lines
What do you think is the meaning of the following lines? To what type of theme do you think this line relates?
O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!

10. What do you think is the meaning of the following lines
What do you think is the meaning of the following lines? To what type of theme do you think this line relates?
She married:— O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!

11. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.
What do you think is the meaning of the following lines? To what type of theme do you think this line relates?
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

12. What do you think is the meaning of the following lines
What do you think is the meaning of the following lines? To what type of theme do you think these lines relate?
To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?—To die,—to sleep,—  No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to,—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish’d. To die,—to sleep;—  To sleep: perchance to dream:—ay, there’s the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,

13. What do you think is the meaning of the following lines
What do you think is the meaning of the following lines? To what type of theme do you think this line relates?
The saddest thing about betrayal is that it never comes from your enemies.