Hamlet

''A little more than kin, and less than kind" is Prince Hamlet's assessment of his relationship to the new king of Denmark, his uncle Claudius.

Yes the ghost only speaks to Hamlet. The others can see him but cannot hear him. When the ghost visits Hamlet in his mother's closet, his mother can neither see nor hear him.

If the secret is that Hamlet intends to kill Claudius, the correct answer is "false."

We learn during the play that Hamlet has told Horatio, but there's nothing about Hamlet telling Marcellus of his intent to kill Claudius.

yes

Polonius, his father.

This is unknown since he is a fictional character.

His openness and complexity

He ends up being King of Denmark. Since the entire royal family of Denmark gets dead in the last act, and Fortinbras happens to be there with an army, he wins by default.

Fortinbras says that he has some claim to the throne of Denmark. This is crap--he has no claim at all as Claudius showed clearly in the first act. He is just a scumbag adventurer who happens to be in the right place at the right time.

Really bad luck. He is talking about "suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" as opposed to taking "arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them." Slings and arrows are weapons: he feels attacked by "outrageous fortune". Because of the parallel structure of the sentence, we know that the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune is the same thing as a sea of troubles. Fortune is luck, but this luck is an outrage, it is outrageous. He thinks he life is just a bunch of really bad luck.

He is suggesting that if it were not divinely prohibited he'd commit suicide. He is very disturbed over the death of his father and remarriage of his mother as the balance of the soliloquy shows.

nOp!!

Yes. Up to that point you see Claudius exclusively through Hamlet's skewed vision. In his "O, my offence is rank" speech, Claudius is shown to be a rational person, not the monster Hamlet believes him to be. He has committed a crime and a sin, and he knows it, and he knows that to really repent it he must give up the reward of his crime. Part of that reward is being married to Gertrude and he does not want to give that up because he loves her very much, no matter what Hamlet thinks.

Intercourse

A great question! The story of Hamlet derives from legends set in the ninth or tenth century. At that time Denmark had conquered much of England, and had forced it to pay a kind of protection money called "tribute", which meant that as long as the English paid, the Danes would not sail across the North Sea and ravish their country. There is reference to this in Claudius's line to Polonius: "He shall with speed to England for the demand of our neglected tribute." (3,1) The English of the time were a cowardly lot, who were prepared to grovel before the militarily superior Danes at the slightest opportunity. (Historically, apart from the reign of Alfred the Great, the English got regularly thumped by the Danes for a period of over 200 years from 800 to 1016). It therefore makes sense that if the King of Denmark sent word to England to kill someone, the English would eagerly reply, "And how quickly would you like that done?"

Being an intellectual and a graduate of Wittenberg University, Hamlet is the primary character whom "gets fussy about the abuse of Language". His frustration with its misuse is evident in more than two points in the text....

1- Hamlet is annoyed with Osrics in that he has so little to say, yet makes an effort to express his idea in the most complex and pretentious way possible (seen in act 5 scene 2. Hamlets frustration is shown in his response, clearly parodying Osric with much more superior wordplay, leaving Osric confused.

2- During Ophelia's burial, Hamlets outburst was sparked by Laertes' hyperbolic ranting, and in a similar vein to the point above, Hamlets outburst also involves an attempt to demonstrate more superior word play.

3- Early on in the text, Hamlet is also revealed his sensitivity on the abuse / misuse of language. In act 1.2, Hamlet demonstrated a level of hostility to Claudius after referring to him as his "son". His hostility was directed at his mother due to her use of the words "Common" and "seems".

I believe there are multiple other situations in which characters get fussy about the abuse of language. Look over the play and see what you can find. Perhaps something on Polonius, who's famous for his pretentious use of language.

There's no scene where Hamlet gives Ophelia gifts.

We understand that he has, because of the 'Nunnery Scene,' in Act 3, Scene 1, where Ophelia returns Hamlet's gifts. In that scene, she says "My lord, I have remembrances of yours, That I have longed long to redeliver; I pray you, now receive them."

By the way, "remembrances" are keepsakes, sentimental gifts, like a flower for example.

Finny

Act IV, Scene iv in Hamlet ends with his soliloquy. He muses about his motivations and how he needs to move forward with his revenge. At the end of the speech, he steels himself to only focus and act on his bloody thoughts (those that drive him toward his revenge on his uncle). However, later Hamlet will show that this resolve is only in his words and not his actions.

When she realizes she's been poisoned, she finally realizes that there's a conspiracy trying to kill Hamlet. The drink, and therefore the poison, was meant for him. With her last breath, she warns him.

On the battlements of Elsinore Castle, by the castle guards.

In the play, it's true that he does both.

I believe you are referring to the "Get thee to a nunnery!" Scene in Hamlet where he tells Ophelia to go to a nunnery rather than, "be a breeder of sinners," but it is also a play on words because a nunnery was a nickname for a brothel; so he was calling her a prostitute.