Hamlet

Question 0

What does the play reflect in context

Answer 0

Hamlet reflects Shakespeare’s expression of Reformation and humanist thought which stemmed from the Renaissance.

Question 1

Topic sentence

Answer 1

Hamlet explores the opacity of reality to explore hamlets timeless concerns of the human condition.
Unresolved ambiguities, characters plagued by dishonesty and a tragic hero flawed by indecision create a play generated by shifting appearances

Question 2

What does Shakespeare use in the play?

Answer 2

Shakespeare harnesses the use of in a monologue dramatic humour and supernatural references.
please form a metaphysical play that reveals the universal frustration of finding truth in an ever-changing reality

Question 3

What happened during the Renaissance

Answer 3

There was a discrepancy in religion and Thought

Question 4

What is Reformation

Answer 4

Protestants break away from the dominant Catholic Church.

Question 5

What was romantic humanist thought

Answer 5

Romantic humanist thought evolved, which emphasise an interest in human experience and knowledge.

Question 6

What was the consequence of these pivotal changes

Answer 6

The introduction of such pivotal events instigated a period of apprehension.

This is portrayed through the opaque nature of reality throughout the text, a strong reflection of the shifting contextual values of the 16th century

Question 7

Topic sentence for illusion of reality

Answer 7

The illusion of reality is the most pervasive concept evident throughout Hamlet, creating a poignant sense of fabricated truth and ambiguities. Shakespeare builds appearance upon appearance until every character and audiences perception of truth is a web of illusion to which there is no absolute reality.

Question 8

QUOTE: deceptive appearances

Answer 8

God has given you one fave and you make yourselves another

Question 9

QUOTE: OPHELIAS SOLILOQUY

Answer 9

Noble and most sovereign reason, like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh

Hamlet has lost any sense of harmony and concord as his words are

“blasted with ecstasy”

Question 10

QUOTE: Claudius

Answer 10

Was not like madness

Question 11

QUOTE: Polonius

Answer 11

The origin and commencements of his grief sprung from neglected love

Question 12

QUOTE: hamlets fake madness

Answer 12

Antic disposition

Question 13

Evidence of dramatic humour and deceptive appearances

Answer 13

Gravedigger scene

Both characters cryptically suppress the truth

Question 14

Concluding sentence for deceptive appearances

Answer 14

It is the characters duality and insincerity that has created a depletion of truth in the play highlighting the concept of deceptive appearances and illusion.

Question 15

Topic sentence for indecision

Answer 15

The illusion of reality has a significant effect on one’s process of thinking. Parallel to the classical tragic hero hammer is flawed by his re-occurring tendency to obsessively ponder all of his actions.
Soliloquies add another dimension into which the audience are given direct access into the process of thought, repeatedly witnessing his trait of hesitancy.

Question 16

QUOTE: Hamlet is very decisive

Answer 16

With wings as swift as mediation or the thoughts of love, may sweep to my revenge

Question 17

HAMLET: not decisive

Answer 17

And now I’ll do’t/
and so he goes to heaven /
and so am I revenged

Repetition of and - disjunction of thought

Question 18

QUOTE: deception and dishonesty

Answer 18

My words fly up/
my thoughts below /
words without thoughts never to heaven go

Question 19

QUOTE: altering realities

Answer 19

“Do you see that cloud up there that looks like a camel” to which Polonius agrees
“By god, it does look like a camel”

Question 20

EVIDENCE: ghost

Answer 20

By placing the ghost in the opening scene and allowing it to drive the plot, Shakespeare sets the enigmatic tone for the duration of the play

Question 21

QUOTE: Uncertain ghost

Answer 21

“Of health of Goblin damn’d”