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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
Did Hamlet and Horatio now accept entirely without any reservation the message of the ghost?
yes! because they found out that king Claudius really murder late king hamlet
How does Hamlet feel about the drunken revelry?
Hamlet despises the drunken revelry at night. He believes that the drunk acts committed within the kingdom have cast rumors far and wide, leading to a ruined reputation of the King and kingdom as a whole.
What is a good Idea to have a multicultural in tower Hamlets?
It's a good Idea to have a multicultural in tower hamlets because you learn from others.
Furthermore you make lots different freinds.
What does hamlet believe about his fathers death before he meets the apparition?
he doesnt have an clear opinion , only the fact that he was totaly against his my and unlce claudius's Marriage
What if fortinbras was cut from the Hamlet play?
It's been done. In fact, he's more often cut than left in. If you check out any film version of the play (apart from Ken Branagh's) you will seek for Fortinbras in vain.
The play plays quite well without Fortinbras, but he does provide some opportunities. Hamlet's meeting with his army on the way to England is the pretext for his soliloquy "How all occasions do inform against me", although that scene is actually only in one of the source texts. If gives us an idea of where Denmark goes after the death of its entire royal family. Depending about how you feel about Fortinbras, that is either disquieting or the end of the rottenness in the country. Fortinbras's position is similar to Laertes' and Hamlet's; he is seeking revenge for the death of a father; that parallel provides an interesting dimension to the play.
What is the tone of Hamlet's to be or not to be?
Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech is written in a serious tone. Hamlet isn't contemplating suicide, instead he is philosophically pondering the purpose of life for a human being.
What line tells Hamlet there may have been an affair between Gertrude and Claudius?
The ghost tells him:
"Ay, that incestuous, that adulterous beast
With witchcraft of his wits, with traiterous gifts--
O wicked wit and gifts that have the power
So to seduce--won to his shameful lust
The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
O Hamlet, what a falling off was there
From me . . . and to decline
Upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor
To those of mine."
This language suggests that Gertrude and Claudius were lovers before the murder and indeed it would appear that Claudius committed the murder in part in order to marry Gertrude. Later in the play, Claudius says:
"I am still posessed
Of those effects for which I did the murder,
My crown, mine own ambition, and my Queen."
It shows most dramatically in Scene 16, (Act 4 scene 5,) when Laertes leads a mob to storm the castle.
the 'smell' is alluding to something wrong, not an actual odor-
Ex- when you smell something fishy going on- it doesn't actually mean you smell flounder
Hamlet quotes-
"There is something rotten in the state of Denmark"
"The old chief will wear his feathers, ride his pony and eat his corn when you smell the flowers that they put on your grave"
Does Horatio advise that Hamlet should be told about the Ghost's appearance?
Yes. He says: "Let us impart what we have seen tonight unto young Hamlet."
What did Laertes say right before he died?
"Aaargh", although that's not in the script. Just before that he says, "Exchange forgiveness with me, Noble Hamlet. Mine and my father's death come not upon thee nor thine on me."
When did Hamlet chicken processing plant fire happen?
Hamlet chicken processing plant fire happened in 1991.
He's a guard, watching the battlements of Elsinore castle to see if the Norwegians are going to invade. He is one of the guards who sees the ghost of King Hamlet in Act 1 Scene 1.
In Hamlet what does hamlet do that is evil?
Under the universal definition of evil, Hamlet commits murder. He kills Polonius, although his intent was to kill Claudius for revenge of the death of his father. He calculates how to have Rosencrantz and Guildenstern killed in his stead, by forging a letter requesting their executions to the King of England. He kills Laertes--again unintentionally, because he uses the poisoned foil that Laertes slashed him with. Finally, he kills Claudius by stabbing him and feeding the King poison.
Does Polonius believe that love for Ophelia first caused Hamlet's madness?
Yes. He makes this instant diagnosis when Ophelia tells him about Hamlet bursting into her chamber half-undressed: "This is the very ecstasy of love"
What are some similarities between Hamlet from Hamlet and Amir from The Kite Runner?
They are both upper class people. Amir is the son of a successful businessman who has many parties and is very wealthy. Likewise, Hamlet is the son of a king. They also are hesitant in making decisions. Amir decides not to tell anyone about the rape of his friend that he has witnessed and also chooses not to talk to hassan about it. In the end, he is also hesitant about going back to his home country to save the young boy of Hassan's. Hamlet is hesitant in obeying his father's ghost. He wants to prove to himself that Claudius murdered his father instead of going ahead and avenging his father's death then. Both of these characters' decisions affect the entire rest of the story and come back to get them in the end.
How are Queens Gertrude in 'Hamlet' and Jocasta in 'Oedipus Rex' similar and different?
That they tragically love second husbands but that Gertrude's husband is a villain and Jocasta's is not are the ways in which Gertrude in "Hamlet" and Jocasta in "Oedipus Rex" are respectively similar and different.
Specifically, Danish Queen Gertrude falls in love with Claudius, the brother and killer of her first husband. Theban Queen Jocasta falls in love with Oedipus, the son and killer of her first husband. But Claudius kills his brother knowingly and treacherously, in order to become king. In contrast, Oedipus murders his father unknowingly, in an act of self-defense.
What is the attitude and values laertes gives to ophelia and polonius gives to laertes?
to get a life
Who said this and What is it mean I'll call thee hamlet king father royal Dane?
Hamlet says this in Act I Scene 4 of Hamlet. He is talking to the ghost of his father who up to this point hasn't said a word. Hamlet is trying to figure out how to address him in order to make him speak. If he calls him by his name, Hamlet, will he respond? How about father? King? Royal Dane? Whatever he says, the ghost starts talking right away.
What character does hamlet see marching across denmark?
Fortinbras. He's off to fight with the Poles for some reason, probably mostly because he already has "sharked up" an army and has been deflected by Claudius's successful diplomacy from using it against Denmark.
Hamlet slips quietly into the room and steels himself to kill the unseeing Claudius. But suddenly it occurs to him that if he kills Claudius while he is praying, he will be effectively sending his murderous uncle to heaven as a reward for killing his father, who is enduring a painful purgatory because he didn't receive the benefits of a pre-mortem absolution.
Unfortunately, this isn't very relevant to the question as it stands, because, in spite of Hamlet's motivation to kill Claudius, he is never actually forced to do so; by the time he finally takes action in the last scene, he is almost frantically trying to get the job done before Laertes' poison does him in.
In fact, Hamlet is not forced to kill a single person in the play. Check out everyone whose death Hamlet is responsible for:
1. Polonius is killed by accident. When Hamlet speaks with his mother in her chamber after the play-within-a-play, his passionate condemnation makes the hidden Polonius think that Gertrude is in danger, so he calls for help. Hamlet, believing the man behind the curtain to be his uncle, stabs him through it. Of course, he is disappointed when he realizes who it actually is.
2. Laertes is killed because, in the energetic sword fight of Act V, scene ii, his poisoned sword is exchanged with Hamlet's and, as a result, he is himself wounded and, therefore, poisoned.
3 & 4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern accompany Hamlet to England and are unaware that they are supposed to be carrying a letter commanding Hamlet's immediate execution. On the voyage, Hamlet discovers the letter, substitutes one that commands the immediate execution of the bearers of the letter, and then is fortuitously carried off by pirates before he can have second thoughts about causing the death of his school fellows.
5. Although Ophelia technically is responsible for her own death--given that she makes no effort to save herself when she falls into the water and subsequently drowns--her madness could conceivably be blamed on Hamlet, because he is brutally blunt and hostile when he transfers his anger with his own mother onto his ex-girlfriend in the infamous "Get thee to a nunnery" scene. Even so, nobody could conclude that Hamlet is directly responsible for her death.
Nope. Hamlet isn't forced to kill anyone.
How does Hamlet feel at the beginning of this soliloquy?
He believes the entire world is telling him to do his revenge.
