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Hamlet
Includes questions specifically asking about this Shakespeare play. Questions about the movie version should be placed under "Movies." Questions about Shakespeare should be placed under his category under Authors and Poets.
2,117 Questions
Why is the ghost doom'd to walk the night?
He has unfinished business. He was killed in such a way that he cannot rest (he is in purgatory), and he seeks revenge for his murder by inducing his son to kill his murderer. This conceit forms a part of the popular play form called the "revenge tragedy" of which Hamlet is an example. There is always some ghostly or spiritual entity egging someone on to revenge.
January 19 1571
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A.) wears mourning clothes
Who is rosencrantz and guildenstern what motives do they have for carrying out the kings request?
They are two slightly bumbling courtiers,former friends of Hamlet from Wittenberg,who are summoned by Claudius and Gertrude to discover the cause of Hamlet's strange behavior
When did shakespeares son die?
Hamnet, William Shakrspeare's son, and twin brother of Judith, was born around February 1585 and died in August 1596. He was 11 years old.
Does Polonius send Reynaldo to Paris to encourage Laertes to return home?
No, he sends Reynaldo to Paris to spy on Laertes.
Hamlet's plan is to stage a play which will re-enact the murder of his father and then to discover whether Claudius is guilty of the murder or not based on his reaction to the play.
Where does Claudius send Cornelius and voltimand?
He sends them to the King of Norway to tell him about Fortinbras plan to wage war on Denmark.
Comedians, generally. If you are talking about Shakespeare, one of the members of their company was a comedian, so in every play there was a part for a comedian. In a comedy, he might be a main character (see the Merry Wives of Windsor). In a tragedy, he was comic relief.
A actor or Shakespeare said it 1st in a play called Hamlet by a actor playing Hamlet.
Ophelia is bait. She is to engage Hamlet in conversation while Polonius and the King are secretly listening in, hoping that he will reveal to her the reason for his strange behaviour. But Ophelia is not entirely on board with this plan, about which she was never consulted, and she tries to steer the conversation away from revealing details. Hamlet's explosion of anger when he realizes that the conversation is a set-up, and Ophelia is privy to it, convinces Ophelia that he really is crazy ("O what a noble mind is here o'erthrown.") while at the same time convincing Claudius that he is not ("what he spake, though it lacked form a little, was not like madness.").
Shakespeare uses soliloquy to allow readers to get into the characters mind and thoughts. This would allow the reader to know the intimate thoughts when Hamlet murdered his uncle in order to get justice for his father's death.
As far as I know its about Hamlets love for Ophelia (or alleged love). It means you can doubt the stars are made of fire, doubt the sun does move (like they believed that the Sun revolved around the Earth), doubt that the truth is a lie but that the basic idea of love is real.
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Why is Hamlet a victim of circumstance?
His father dies because his uncle killed him and his mother ends up marrying his uncle. Also Polonius tells Ophelia that she can't be with him even though Gertrude wants Hamlet to marry Ophelia. Hamlet stabs at someone hiding behind the curtains and it just happens to be his girlfriend's father. He is sent to England to be killed and he happens to look at the orders which tell him he is to be killed. Then the ship just happens to be attacked by pirates who take him back to Denmark.
What does Hamlet do when he finds the king's letters ordering Hamlet's death?
he switches the out with letters that arrange for the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
What ceremony do hamlet and horatio witness?
It was a custom in Denmark to mark a toast by firing off cannons and blowing horns. Hamlet and Horatio hear this when they are standing around on the battlements of Elsinore waiting for the Ghost to show up. Hamlet sneers that it is a custom more honoured in the breach than the observance, but then he sneers at everything Claudius does no matter what it is.
How many times does Hamlet have the opportunity to attack Claudius?
Claudius is almost always in the company of others who would act to stop an assassination attempt. To try it would be suicide and probably wouldn't work. Hamlet does have a great chance when he catches him praying just before the Closet Scene, and he knows it. "Now might I do it, pat while he is praying." He doesn't take this chance, and doesn't get another until the end, by which time it doesn't matter if it is suicide."
