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Read the excerpt from 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’dHis 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 naturePossess it merely. That it should come to this!

Thaw and resolve itself into a dew;

His canon ’gainst self-slaughter!

How weary, stale,

Fie on ’t! O fie!

Read the excerpt from Hamlet.Hamlet: My fears forgetting manners—to unsealTheir grand commission; where I found, Horatio, O royal knavery! an exact command, Larded with many several sorts of reasons Importing Denmark’s health, and England’s too, With, ho! such bugs and goblins in my life, That, on the supervise, no leisure bated, No, not to stay the grinding of the axe, My head should be struck off.

“demanding.”

“complaining.”

“edited.”

“filled.”

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Read the excerpt from Hamlet.Hamlet: No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam, and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?Imperious Caesar, dead and turn’d to clay,Might stop a hole to keep the wind away

contrast the deaths of Alexander and Caesar.

show how kings should behave around death.

compare Hamlet to two rulers who died.

emphasize that everyone eventually dies.

Read the passage from Hamlet, Act IV, Scene v.Laertes: How came he dead? I’ll not be juggled with. To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil! Conscience and grace, to the profoundest pit! I dare damnation. To this point I stand, That both the worlds I give to negligence, Let come what comes; only I’ll be reveng’d Most throughly for my father.

eager to take his father’s place

anxious to avenge his father’s death

loyal to his father’s memory

worried about his father’s soul

Read the passage from Hamlet, Act II, Scene ii.Gertrude: Thanks, Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz; And I beseech you instantly to visit My too much changed son. Go, some of you, And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.

In this speech, Gertrude shows that she is more interested in flirting with Guildenstern and Rosencrantz than in helping Hamlet.

The way that Gertrude orders people around in this speech shows that she is primarily interested in flexing her power.

Gertrude’s dialogue shows her sense of urgency and desperation, proving that she is truly worried about Hamlet.

With this dialogue, Gertrude shows that she is reluctant to trust Guildenstern and Rosencrantz but feels she has no other choice.

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Hamlet: 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.

Thus conscience does make cowards of us all

And thus the native hue of resolution

And enterprises of great pith and moment

With this regard their currents turn awry

Which passage from Hamlet, Act II, Scene i is an example of setting?

A Room in POLONIUS’ House.

Enter POLONIUS and REYNALDO.

Exit REYNALDO.

Ghost: [Beneath.] Swear. [They swear.]

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Read the excerpt from Act I of Hamlet.Bernardo: ’Tis now struck twelve; get thee to bed, Francisco.

This is twelve.

It’s twelve o’clock.

Twelve things have fallen.

A man was hit twelve times.

Read the excerpt from Hamlet. Hamlet: Let me see.—[Takes the skull.]—Alas! poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning?

As the play draws to a close, Hamlet still has not conquered his fear of death.

Hamlet’s visit to the graveyard leads to him become obsessed with his death.

At the end of the play, Hamlet literally faces death and regains a sense of hope.

Hamlet has abandoned his plans by this point and has reconciled himself to death.

Read the excerpt from Hamlet. Voltimand: . . . On Fortinbras; which he, in brief, obeys, Receives rebuke from Norway, and, in fine, Makes vow before his uncle never more To give the assay of arms against your majesty. Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy,Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee, And his commission to employ those soldiers, So levied as before, against the Polack; With an entreaty, herein further shown, [Giving a paper.]

updating the setting to a modern city

changing the costumes to modern fashion

replacing the outdated terms with slang

using actors with different ethnicities

Read the excerpt from Act IV of Hamlet.Hamlet: Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour’s at the stake.

Shakespeare utilizes the repetition of “great” to help illustrate Hamlet’s lack of a main point.

By repeating the same word, Shakespeare shows that Hamlet is not sure of his point.

Shakespeare capitalizes on the multiple meanings of “great” to help emphasize Hamlet’s point.

By using a word with multiple meanings, Shakespeare shows that Hamlet is not good at making his point.

Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Rosencrantz: To visit you, my lord; no other occasion.Hamlet: Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, come, deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak.Guildenstern: What should we say, my lord?

It establishes that Hamlet is poverty-stricken.

It establishes that Hamlet dislikes his friends.

It establishes that Hamlet suffers hardships.

It establishes that Hamlet has little gratitude.

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Horatio: My lord, I came to see your father’s funeral.Hamlet: I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; I think it was to see my mother’s wedding.Horatio: Indeed, my lord, it follow’d hard upon.Hamlet: Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak’d meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

amused that he was able to attend his own mother’s wedding.

disgusted that Gertrude and Claudius married so quickly.

grateful that his mother did not have to remain a widow for long.

resentful that Gertrude and Claudius wasted so much food.

Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.The rugged Pyrrhus, like the Hyrcanian beast,— ’tis not so, it begins with Pyrrhus:— The rugged Pyrrhus, he, whose sable arm, Black as his purpose, did the night resemble When he lay couched in the ominous horse,

Hamlet does not believe that Claudius killed his father.

Hamlet is still undecided about avenging his father’s death.

Hamlet is shocked by Pyrrhus’s merciless behavior.

Hamlet admires Pyrrhus and wants to follow his example.

Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damn’d defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i’ the throat, As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?

A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause,

And can say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life

A damn’d defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across?

Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i’ the throat,

Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene v.Hamlet: Remember thee! Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe.

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planet.

sphere.

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.[Hamlet:] Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on ’t: Frailty, thy name is woman!A little month; or ere those shoes were old With which she follow’d my poor father’s body, Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she,— O God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn’d longer,—married with mine uncle,My father’s brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules . . .

eager.

fickle.

loyal.

sickly.

Read the passage from Hamlet, Act I, Scene iii.Polonius: Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express’d in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man, And they in France of the best rank and station Are most select and generous, chief in that.

addiction

attire

behavior

custom

To analyze tone, what is one topic the reader should study?

context clues

the audience

connotations

the setting

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.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

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Which of these lines uses a simile to make a comparison? Choose two answers.

Why, what an ass am I! This is most brave

That I, the son of a dear father murder’d,

Prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell,

Must, like a whore, unpack my heart with words,

And fall a-cursing, like a very drab,

Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann’d, Tears in his eyes, distraction in ’s aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! For Hecuba!

is irritated by the actor’s emotional performance of the speech.

is impressed by the actor’s ability to cry for a fictional character.

wishes the actor had shown more emotion during the speech.

feels that the actor does not know who Hecuba really was.

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