Hamlet, Part 8: Themes — Unit test Answers

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet. Ophelia: My lord, I have remembrances of yours, That I have longed long to re-deliver; I pray you, now receive them.Read the adaptation of the excerpt. Ophelia: I have some things here that I want to return to you. Please, take them back.

Which statements describe the rising action of a tragedy’s plot? Select 2 options.A series of events develop the plot’s central conflict.Loose ends of the plot are “tied up” to provide closure.Suspense builds gradually as the plot progresses.Background information is provided and the play’s setting is revealed.Tension reaches its height in the plot, and a solution to a conflict becomes clear.

Which ideas describe a round character? Select three answers.

Which statement best explains why Shakespeare alludes to Hecuba throughout Act II, Scene ii of Hamlet?

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Gertrude: O! speak to me no more; These words like daggers enter in mine ears; No more, sweet Hamlet!Hamlet: A murderer, and a villain; A slave that is not twentieth part the tithe Of your precedent lord; a vice of kings; A cut-purse of the empire and the rule, That from a shelf the precious diadem stole, And put it in his pocket! Gertrude: No more!

Read the excerpt from a paper about Hamlet.The relationship between Horatio and Hamlet is crucial to understanding the play. Whereas most people would have abandoned Hamlet, Horatio instead repeatedly aids Hamlet in a variety of ways. Even when Hamlet dies, Horatio makes sure that Hamlet’s wishes are carried out and his side of the story is told.

In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, what plot event prompts Hamlet to become suspicious and resentful?

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Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.[Exeunt all except HAMLET.]Hamlet: O! that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Fie on ’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this!

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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O! vengeance!

Take a look at this image from Jonathan Price’s adaptation of Hamlet.Take a look at this image from Sir Laurence Olivier’s adaptation of Hamlet.

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Read the excerpts from Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.Excerpt 1[CLAUDIUS.] . . . Something have you heardOf Hamlet’s transformation; so I call it,Since nor the exterior nor the inward manResembles that it was. What it should beMore than his father’s death, that thus hath put himSo much from the understanding of himself,I cannot dream of: I entreat you both,That, being of so young days brought up with him,And since so neighbour’d to his youth and humour,That you vouchsafe your rest here in our courtSome little time; so by your companiesTo draw him on to pleasures, and to gather,So much as from occasion you may glean,Whe’r aught to us unknown afflicts him thus,That, open’d, lies within our remedy.Excerpt 2GUIL We have been briefed. Hamlet’s transformation. What do you recollect?ROS Well, he’s changed, hasn’t he? The exterior and inward man fails to resemble—GUIL Draw him on to pleasures—glean what afflicts him.ROS Something more than his father’s death—GUIL He’s always talking about us—there aren’t two people living whom he dotes on more than us.ROS We cheer him up—find out what’s the matter—GUIL Exactly, it’s a matter of asking the right questions and giving away as little as we can. It’s a game.

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