Anyone familiar with "Hamlet"?

[DrumminBoy]

I'm working on some questions on Hamlet for honors English 4, just thought I'd see if you guys could throw anything out here.

1. Is Denmark's situation at the beginning of the play stable or unstable? Give examples/quotes.

2. Describe Polonius and his purpose in the play. Give Citations to support.

3. In Hamlet, some traditional symbols are slightly different. Consider the symbolic use of light and dark versus what actually happens during the day and night.

4. Compare Horatio to Rosencrantz and Gildenstern.

Thanks! (btw, no im not asking you to do my homework, and yes I've visited spark notes )

EDIT: Oh forget it, I wasnt asking because they were hard, I was asking just for the sake of...well im not sure why I asked. In any case, I've already got them done. Everone move along now, nothing to see here.

 

[TwinkleToes77]

You should really just read the book ya know? My teachers always gave us tests questions that couldnt be found in the cliffnotes.

 

[Ness]

Denmark is at war with another country... so no, they are not stable. I forget what country.


It's been too long since I've read it to answer the other ones. :-\

 

[CrazyPerson]

book.. ha... rent the movie

 

[Vic]

Read the play. It's well worth it, and not just for your grade.

 

[Cal166]

Originally posted by: DrumminBoy
I'm working on some questions on Hamlet for honors English 4

 

[Passions]

This is for an honor's class? All questions, except #3, are too easy.


See below for a great question!

 

[Queasy]

Schoolkids these days have it so easy <sigh>

Back when I was a young'un, I had to trek to the book store fer Cliff Notes (uphill both ways in a blizzard!). We had to sit down and have study sessions with our classmates and share notes! Written on paper no less!

Now you young'uns have this new-fangles internet contraption where you can git all your answers fer free and without working fer it!

</sarcasm>

 

[CrazyPerson]

in honor of the brain dead

 

[nanyangview]

oh man..my grade 12 hamlet class have harder questions than that

 

[DrumminBoy]

Originally posted by: Vic
Read the play. It's well worth it, and not just for your grade.

We're reading it aloud in class.

 

[Passions]

Describe why Hamlet is tortured by his conscience in killing Claudius. Specifically, what religious motivations does Hamlet have? Throughout the play, Hamlet struggles with himself and is suicidal. Yet during one of the final acts, Hamlet says to Horatio, "?Give me the cup. Let go. By heaven, I?ll ha?t.? Explain this religious message. Support your answers with lines from the play.

 

[NoReMoRsE]

All these Shakespeare quotes remind me of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

To be... or not... to be... <torpedo hits Klingon vessel>

 

[Passions]

Originally posted by: NoReMoRsE
All these Shakespeare quotes remind me of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

To be... or not... to be... <torpedo hits Klingon vessel>

ROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[illusion88]

Originally posted by: DrumminBoy
I'm working on some questions on Hamlet for honors English 4, just thought I'd see if you guys could throw anything out here.

1. Is Denmark's situation at the beginning of the play stable or unstable? Give examples/quotes.

Well, I cant go look up the examples, but his uncle did just kill his father (the king) and that generaly causes unrest. The death of a king is never a good thing for a country. I seem to remember there beign talk of some wars, wars are never good for a country either.

2. Describe Polonius and his purpose in the play. Give Citations to support.

3. In Hamlet, some traditional symbols are slightly different. Consider the symbolic use of light and dark versus what actually happens during the day and night.

Well, one key example is this, At night, the truth was reveled to him through the "ghost" of his father. I would embelish but I am too lazy, an horor student would be able to take it from there.

4. Compare Horatio to Rosencrantz and Gildenstern.

Read the play "Rosenctantz and Gildenstern are dead" and you will understand all about these charecters.

Thanks! (btw, no im not asking you to do my homework, and yes I've visited spark notes )

EDIT: Oh forget it, I wasnt asking because they were hard, I was asking just for the sake of...well im not sure why I asked. In any case, I've already got them done. Everone move along now, nothing to see here.

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: NoReMoRsE
All these Shakespeare quotes remind me of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.

To be... or not... to be... <torpedo hits Klingon vessel>

To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.


edit: typo

edit2L: btw, read this as many times as you need to... it's one of the most amazingly profound and written lines in all of English lit...

 

[DaWhim]

must be kidding me, if you are taking honor english. I read this book in my ghetto hs. (one of the most dangerous high school in new york city)