Hamlet, Part 7: Plot and Character Answers

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

Which words best describe Gertrude in Act IV of Hamlet?

Which words describe Ophelia in the excerpt? Select 3 options.

Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Claudius: Where are my Switzers? Let them guard the door. What is the matter?Gentleman: Save yourself, my lord; The ocean, overpeering of his list, Eats not the flats with more impetuous haste Than young Laertes, in a riotous head, O'erbears your officers. The rabble call him lord; And, as the world were now but to begin, Antiquity forgot, custom not known, The ratifiers and props of every word, They cry, 'Choose we; Laertes shall be king!' Caps, hands, and

In Act IV of Hamlet, why does Shakespeare include the plot event in which Horatio reads and reacts to Hamlet’s letter about an encounter with pirates?

Which word best describes Laertes in Act IV of Hamlet?

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, what plot event causes Ophelia’s mental decline?

Laertes returns to Denmark to confront Claudius about his father’s death. This is part of the plot’s

Francisco and Bernardo, two castle guards in Elsinore, Denmark, stand alert on the castle steps at night. This is part of the plot’s

Read the excerpts from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.Which statement best describes Gertrude’s development between Act I and Act IV?