Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O! vengeance!
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, what plot event prompts Hamlet to become suspicious and resentful?
Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.. . . 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.
If Shakespeare kills the character of Hamlet, what dramatic convention would he be using?
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Hamlet: Am I not i’ the right, old Jephthah?Polonius: If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passing well.
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.
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Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Danes: [Within.] Let her come in.Laertes: How now! what noise is that?Re-enter OPHELIA.O heat, dry up my brains! tears seven times salt, Burn out the sense and virtue of mine eye! By heaven, thy madness shall be paid by weight, Till our scale turn the beam. O rose of May! Dear maid, kind sister, sweet Ophelia! O heavens! is 't possible a young maid's wits Should be as mortal as an old man’s life? Nature is fine in love, and where 'tis fine It sends some precious instance of itself After the thing it loves.
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Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Guildenstern: Happy in that we are not over happy; On Fortune’s cap we are not the very button.Hamlet: Nor the soles of her shoe?Rosencrantz: Neither, my lord.
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.
Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii.Polonius: Beware Of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, Bear ’t that th’ opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy ...
Which statement best explains why Shakespeare alludes to Hecuba throughout Act II, Scene ii of Hamlet?
Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Rosencrantz:My lord, you once did love me.Hamlet:So I do still, by these pickers and stealers.Rosencrantz:Good my lord, what is your cause of distemper? you do surely bar the door upon your own liberty, if you deny your griefs to your friend.Hamlet:Sir, I lack advancement.Rosencrantz:How can that be when you have the voice of the king himself for your succession in Denmark? Hamlet: Ay, sir, but ‘While the grass grows,’—the proverb is something musty.
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