Hamlet context

Question 1

Cain

Answer 1

• the first ever murder

- Adam and eves son kills his brother

Question 2

• Aristotle good tragedy

Answer 2

• there should be audience catharsis where the climax with great violence and all complications would be resolved

Question 3

• What era was Hamlet written in

Answer 3

• 1601
• renaissance era
• tragedies are in fashion
• hero is expected to be a man of action

Question 4

what is ducat

Answer 4

• a type of gambling

- means impulse

Question 5

religion during this era

Answer 5

• had recently switch from Catholicism to Protestantism

- the skipping of purgatory

Question 6

what is a humanist

Answer 6

• someone who questions everything, should, body ,mind

Question 7

Death in the era

Answer 7

• elizbvethen are very aware of death

- had skulls in painting and drawn in door ways to remind people that death is inevadble