Hamlet, Part 7: Plot and Character Answers

Which word best describes Laertes in Act IV of Hamlet?

Hamlet stages a performance about a murder to discern Claudius’s guilt. This is part of Hamlet’s

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, what plot events undermine Queen Gertrude’s confidence?

Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Gentleman: She speaks much of her father; says she hears There's tricks i' the world; and hems, and beats her heart; Spurns enviously at straws; speaks things in doubt, That carry but half sense: her speech is nothing . . .Horatio: 'Twere good she were spoken with, for she may strew Dangerous conjectures in ill-breeding minds.Gertrude: Let her come in. [Exit Gentleman.] To my sick soul, as sin's true nature is, Each toy seems prologue to some great amiss: So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.