Hamlet 1.2 | Hamlet’s Interactions With Gertrude + Claudius

Question 1

1.2 Hamlet dressed in black

Answer 1

Costume used to depict hamlet as still being in mourning, contrasting the colour and tone of celebration defining the rest of the royal court

Question 2

1.2 Relationship between hamlet and his mother

Answer 2

Conveyed through anaphoric repetition “Nor” , he rejects the cliched displays of grief, believes it is ‘within’ , not showing displays of suffering

Question 3

1.2 “A little more than kin and less than kind”

Answer 3

He sees the new relationship between Gertrude and Claudius as abnormally close, making it clear he shares no common ground with Claudius