Hamlet

They are not. Gertrude does say that she hoped Ophelia and Hamlet would marry, but she didn't bother saying that while Ophelia was alive, so she was hardly eager. Polonius told Ophelia to give Hamlet the cold shoulder, since he thought Hamlet was only trying to get into her pants. He did not want Hamlet to fall for Ophelia at all (and he sure didn't think he would do so), but he comes to the conclusion later that Hamlet has in fact fallen in love with Ophelia. He's not exactly happy about that, but what he is happy about is that he can 1) be the first to tell the king, thus making him look smart, and 2) use Ophelia as bait to find out more about Hamlet.

family obligations versus self-interest

autonomy versus submission to authority

hamlet usually have a denser population to a village and villages usually have a few commercial buildings like a pub, shop or post office.

Hamlet asks the players to perform a specific play containing the murder of Gonzago. He also requests that they insert specific lines that he created himself.

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Before Hamlet enters his mother's chamber, Polonius is having a discussion with Hamlet's mother Gertrude. As Hamlet enters the room, Polonius conceals himself behind a tapestry hanging from the wall. When he hears Gertrude begin to feel threatened by Hamlet, he cries out for help, thinking that he would kill them both. Hamlet hears Polonius, and believes him to be a rat/spy (possibly even King Claudius, but it is unclear if he truly believes this). Hamlet stabs through the tapestry killing Polonius, who remarks "O, I am slain".

To spy on him. First of all he wants to spy on him when interacting with Ophelia, and when this fails to support his theory, he wants to spy on him while interacting with Gertrude.

Not exactly. Fortinbras is transporting his army to Poland. Hamlet enters as they pass and questions one of the soldiers in the army as to what is going on. But he doesn't actually talk to Fortinbras himself. Fortinbras leaves the stage as Hamlet comes on.

I think I know the play pretty well, but I can't think of any "decoration" in Queen Gertrude's "closet" [her study and sewing room]. Maybe the question refers to these lines: "Look here, upon this picture, and on this, / The counterfeit presentment of two brothers." In these lines Hamlet refers to two pictures of two brothers: King Hamlet (Hamlet's father) and King Claudius (Hamlet's uncle). In performance, those pictures are sometimes represented as pictures on the wall of Queen Gertrude's closet, but they can also be represented as lockets, with Queen Gertrude's locket containing the picture of King Claudius, and Hamlet's locket containing the picture of his father, King Hamlet.

He tells him that he knew him, and that he was a fellow of most infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. In other words, he was a funny guy. He also used to carry Hamlet piggyback when Hamlet was a child.

None. You can play the portion of the Act 3 Scene 1 which consists of the famous speech without any props at all. If you are going to do the whole scene, (usually called the Nunnery Scene, because of Hamlet's repeated line "Get thee to a nunnery!") some kind of prop is needed at Ophelia's line, "Their perfume lost, take these again, for to the noble mind rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. There, my lord." Ophelia has to give Hamlet something at this point.

That is not to say that a prop might not be helpful. Sir Derek Jacobi, when playing Hamlet, looked at the picture of his father in his locket when saying the line "death, the undiscovered country from which no traveller returns" which makes one consider that line and indeed the whole speech in a different light. But such a prop is not necessary.

2 parts to this question... To get rid of Hamlet, King Claudius first sends Hamlet to Englan along with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with a letter that requests putting Hamlet to death. This plan fails because Hamlet finds out and switches the letter resulting in the death of its carrier (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern). When he comes back.. the King tries to get rid of him by 1. Putting poisin in his drink (but fails and Gertrude ends up drinking it). 2. Poisining Laertes' sowrd so he would kill Hamlet while fighting, and he succeeds. (But of course that happens after Hamlet finds out and kills the King)

He wasn't happy because the murder in the play was so similar to the one he had committed. Whether he is disturbed, or angry, or confused, or frightened depends on the actor and the director.

He tells Horatio to "draw his breath in pain," to tell Hamlet's story.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - both who end up dead.

Gertrude, Hamlets mother.

They planned to kill prince hamlet with a posioned foil

Hamlet is killed in Act 5, scene 2 when Laertes cuts him with a poisoned blade. Hamlet's Uncle Claudius has convinced Hamlet to duel Laertes and has supplied Laertes with the poisoned blade that kills Hamlet.

They don't. They try to get him to say that what is troubling him is that he wants to be the king, but he doesn't follow through in the way that they hope. In act 2 scene 2 Rosencrantz responds to Hamlet's statement that Denmark is a prison tohim by saying "Why, then, your ambition makes it one." and when Hamlet ends his reply by saying "were it not that I have bad dreams", Guildenstern follows up by saying "Which dreams indeed are ambition . . ."

Possibly Hamlet catches on from this clumsy attempt that Ros and Guil are spies, which he accuses them of soon after.

In any event, in their report to the King and Queen at the beginning of 3,1 they cannot point to any reason for Hamlet's behaviour. Rosencrantz says "He does confess he feels himself distracted, but from what cause he will be no means speak." They tactfully do not tell Claudius that Hamlet sussed them out as spies.

Ophelia appears to obey whenever her brother or father tell her anything. She's annoyed at Laertes's urge toward chastity, since she suspects him of being a hypocrite, but she agrees anyway. She's very meek, up until she goes mad.

We need to know what 'this point' is before we can answer.

King Hamlet isn't. King Hamlet was. In the play Hamlet, King Hamlet was the previous king of Denmark and father to Prince Hamlet after whom the play is named. At the time the play starts. King Hamlet is already dead. However, his ghost makes an appearance in Act 1 Scene 1 and in three scenes thereafter.

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He puts a pearl in the wine glass as the fencing match is going on between Laertes and Hamlet. Something along the lines of this is for your health and says so in front of everybody, but Hamlet does not drink it. Queen Gertrude is the one who gets thirsty and drinks during the fencing match. She dies soon after and that really gets Hamlet angry.