Scene 5

Question 1

What duty does Hamlet have towards his father?

Answer 1

Filial duty

Question 2

Why is there a disproportionate line length shared between Hamlet and his father?

Answer 2

To show the ghost as an authoritarian figue

Question 3

What does hamlets interaction with the ghost of his father parallel?

Answer 3

Polonius and Ophelia relationship

Question 4

‘Speak, i am ……… to hear’

Answer 4

Bound

Question 5

‘……….,……….. O …….. if thou didst ever thy dear father love’

Answer 5

List

Question 6

‘Till the foul cries den in my days of nature are….

Answer 6

Burnt and purgd away’

Question 7

What does the ghost speech represent conflict between?

Answer 7

The catholic beleif of purgatory and the protestant grilde of hell.

Question 8

‘Revenge this ….. and most unnatural murder’

Answer 8

Foul

Question 9

Murder most ….. at best

Answer 9

Foul

Question 10

But this most …… strange and unnatural

Answer 10

Foul

Question 11

what word does the ghost of old hamlet repeat when describing his murder?

Answer 11

Foul

Question 12

‘haste me to know’t that i with….’

Answer 12

Wings as swift

Question 13

‘May sweep to my…’

Answer 13

Revenge

Question 14

‘A ……. Stung me’ what does this reference?

Answer 14

Serpent. References the garden of Eden to suggest that Claudius is blasphemous and deceitful

Question 15

‘Thy …….. all alone shall live’

Answer 15

Commandment

Question 16

‘Forged process of my death….’

Answer 16

Rankly abus’d

Question 17

‘Ay, that ……… and adulterate beast’

Answer 17

Incestuous

Question 18

What is the ghost tone?

Answer 18

Imperative or demanding

Question 19

Hamlet says ‘I have….’

Answer 19

Swornt

Question 20

What was the name of Shakespeare’s son?

Answer 20

Hamnet

Question 21

When did Shakespeare’s son die?

Answer 21

1596 - 5 years before Hamlet was performed

Question 22

Shakespeare losing his only son may have influenced whose relationship?

Answer 22

Hamlet and his fathers

Question 23

‘All duties seem …….. to hamlet’ (Van Goethe)

Answer 23

Holy

Question 24

‘Hamlet is rather an …….. than an agent’ (Johnson)

Answer 24

Instrument

Question 25

‘…………………. Remember me’

Answer 25

Adieu, adieu, adieu.

Question 26

‘Let not the royal bed of Denmark be…’

Answer 26

A cough for luxury and damned incest

Question 27

What does the ghost tell hamlet to do to his mother?

Answer 27

Leave her be, suggesting she wasn’t involved in the killing of old hamlet

Question 28

‘I’ll wipe away all ………….. records’

Answer 28

Tricks fond

Question 29

‘O most ……… woman’

Answer 29

Pernicious

Question 30

‘O villain, villain, smiling…..’

Answer 30

Damned villain

Question 31

‘It is….’

Answer 31

Adieu adieu remember me

Question 32

‘To put an antic….’

Answer 32

Disposition on

Question 33

What mindset does Hamlets vengeful attitude represent? And what does it contrast?

Answer 33

A medieval mindset to contrast his past Renaissance mindset

Question 34

‘O cursed…..’

Answer 34

Spite

Question 35

‘O cursed spite that i was ever born to…..’

Answer 35

Set it right