Hamlet - Setting

Question 1

physical setting

Answer 1

• a “prison” is Elsinore, Denmark

Question 2

tension in setting

Answer 2

• hamlet feels like he is surrounded by people he can’t get along with
• Claudius’ work to become king has usurped Hamlet himself as the king
• feels like his relationship with the people around him is so tense that he wants to get out and away from them

Question 3

answers

Answer 3

• he felt like he was trapped
• elsinore
• themes of leadership and power
• cold weather and the starkness
• time and place (setting)
• in which there are many confines…
• to keep and eye on hamlet
• trapped