Ham. Quest. 2

1. What is odd about Hamlet’s appearance in the opening of scene two?
He's dressed completely in black.





2. Explain (give at least two reasons) why Claudius needs to justify his marriage in the opening of scene two.
He married his brother's widow and he must pick up the kings duties.








3. Laertes asks the King for leave to do what, specifically?
He wants to return to France.

4. Explain Hamlet’s insult when he says, “A little more than kin and less than kind.”
He says that his uncle is more related to him than he is kind.






5. Explain Hamlet’s use of pun in the line, “Not so my lord, I am too much in the sun.”
He means that he is too much of a son, since his new father is/was also his uncle





6. In Hamlet’s first soliloquy it is obvious that what troubles him most is?
How quickly his mother remaries after his father's death.










7. What does Hamlet mean by the following lines

“Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not ‘seems’.
‘Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forc’d breath,
No, nore the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected havior of the visage,
Together will all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
That can denote me truly. These indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play;
But I have that within which passes show,
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.



He's angry with his mother because of how she's not grieving like he is over his father's death. He says that his grief is more than an inward emotion.

8. What does Hamlet say about the baked meats and the funeral and the wedding.
That they used the left over meat from the funeral for the wedding which was the next day.




9. What news does Horatio, Marcellus and Barnardo bring to Hamlet.
They have seen his father's ghost dressed in armor

Act 1 scenes 3-4

1) What is Laertes advice to Ophelia?
To not date/marry Hamlet




2) How does “The canker galls the infants of the spring/ too oft before their buttons be disclos’d” fit into the ideology of the decaying garden?
Hamlet is the worm and Ophelia is a flower. If she stays with Hamlet then she will decay the garden.




3) What analogy does Ophelia give to her brother as an answer to his advice? What does she mean?
She tells him to pretty much look after his own garden since she knows about all of the women that he has in France.





4) List five of the “few precepts” that Polonius gives to Laertes.
Be friendly to others but don't appear cheap,listen to everyone but only tell those who are privileged, think but don't speak, don't make any rash decisions, and once you have tested your friendships then they are good friends.







5) In lines 105-109, what is the metaphor that Polonius uses to describe Hamlet’s words of love?
Polonius says that hamlets tenders are not sterling, which means that Hamlet's love isn't real.






6) List and explain one metaphor found in the lines 115-135.





7) What is Polonius’ command to Ophelia?
To stay away from Hamlet.




8) In scene 4, what is Hamlet talking about in lines 13-38?
He doesn't like what the king is doing and he thinks that he is making Denmark look like a drunken country which is a weakness.







9) Why doesn’t Horatio want Hamlet to follow the ghost?
They are worried that the ghost is evil and not Hamlet's father.






10) What is Hamlet’s command to the three guards?
He says he must speak with ghost alone and that he doesn't mind dying if the ghost is evil.