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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.

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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.

Comic relief is provided by?

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.

What part does Ophelia play in the plan of Polonius and the King What is her reaction to the way Hamlet speaks to her?

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.").

What is the effect of using soliloquy to convey the thoughts of Hamlet who must murder his uncle in order to avenge his father's death?

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.

What is Doubt thou the stars are fire doubt that the sun doth move doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt you love In shakespeares Hamlet?

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.

If that answers your question??

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."

Was Hamlet a sulphite?

Was Hamlet a salt of sulfurous acid? Um, no.

When was Hamlet Had an Uncle created?

Hamlet Had an Uncle was created in 1940.

What are the Biblical allusions in Hamlet?

Adam- the first man according to Genesis in the Bible

Sparrow- a small bird in a biblical story whose fate is determined by God. This is an allusion to Matthew 10 in the Bible.

"The readiness is all" is an allusion to Matthew 24:44

Hope this sort of helped

What a piece of work man is what play is this from by William Shakespeare?

This appears in Hamlet, Act 2, scene 2, line 242; Prince Hamlet is speaking to King Claudius' spies and childhood friends of the prince Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation prevent your discovery, and your secrecy to the King and Queen moult no feather. I have of late-but wherefore I know not-lost all my mirth, foregone all custom of exercise; and indeed it goes so heavily with my disposition that this goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinte in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me,-no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.

What does cladius allow laertes to do?

Claudius allows Laertes to head back to England. This was used to bring out the unjust treatment of Hamlet, whose own request was denied.

Is Hamlet the only character who sees King Hamlet's ghost throughout the play?

No in the opening scene Horatio, Hamlets friend, sees the ghost, along with two sentries, Marcellus and Bernardo. The Sentries have seen the ghost on previous nights and have called Horatio to see it too.

Theres the respect That makes calamity of so long life Hamlet William Shakespeare?

Hamlet comes to the conclusion (in the previous sentence) that what comes after death must "give us pause"... must in a sense give us peace from the toils of life. So he concludes: "there's the respect that makes calamity of so long life." paraphrased: That is an angle(respect) that makes a long life seem rather like a bad thing(calamity) than a good thing.

Of course then he remembers that he really doesn't know for sure whether he will really get his "pause" after death...

What in Hamlet's speech signals his unconscious thought that it is his mother's fault for being the object of male desires?

Hamlet does not blame his mother for being the object of male desires; he blames her for giving in to her own desires. Hamlet feels that as a widow her interest in men should cease. "You cannot call it love for at your age the hectic in the blood is tame", and "to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty" is disgusting to Hamlet. In Act III Scene 4 Hamlet pleads with his mother to stop her sex life. Claudius may be interested, but Gertrude can say no at any time, and that is exactly what Hamlet wants her to do. "But go not to mine uncle's bed; assume a virtue, if you have it not." The same theme is present in his soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 2: "O, most wicked speed to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets."

What does polonius advise Reynaldo to do?

Reynaldo is a spy who is supposed to spy on Laertes.

What does If it be why seems it so particular with thee mean-Hamlet?

Gertrude is responding to Hamlet's response about her last remark. She is trying to talk him out of mourning the death of his father, her late husband. She has said that everybody's father dies; "it is common"; it happens all the time. The dead fathers go to heaven, passing from nature to eternity. Hamlet replies, "Ay, madam, it is common" which looks like he agrees although most likely he really means that her actions are "common" in the sense that they would suit a dairymaid better than a queen. (Hamlet is, as you have probably noticed, a bit of a snob).

Gertrude however takes him at his word, and thinks she is getting through, so she asks the question, "If it be [common], why is it so particular with thee?" The word "particular" means "special to one person" as in "He has his own particular way of shuffling cards". What she is saying is, "Why if everyone else has this problem, are you acting like you are the only one who had a father die?"

How did Hamlet react when he got to know that the grave was for Ophelia?

Hamlet sees Laertes acting like a jerk, putting on a big show of grief, with himself the center of attention, instead of being properly respectful for Ophelia's funeral service. It makes Hamlet angry.