How does Hamlet react to his new suspicions?
How does Hamlet react to his new suspicions? Hamlets father’s ghost tells him to not take revenge upon Gertrude.
What instructions does Hamlet give to the players?
Hamlet tells the players, “Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue”. Q: What is the reason for Hamlet giving instructions to the players? The reason Hamlet gives instructions to the players is that he wants them to enact a scene similar to how he thinks his father was killed.
What is Hamlet’s new plan to prove his uncle murdered his father?
Hamlet decides to have the actors perform something similar to how his father’s death was so that he could observe his uncle’s reaction and prove his claim, that his uncle killed his father. What is Claudius’ opinion of Hamlet’s madness?
Does Hamlet’s plan to prove whether King Claudius actually killed his father work?
However, Hamlet hesitates and begins to question whether the ghost he saw was actually his father or a demonic spirit. In order to ensure that King Claudius killed his father, Hamlet conspires to have actors reenact the circumstances of his father’s murder during their performance of The Murder of Gonzago.
At what point does Claudius show the first major signs of guilt?
In act 3, scene 3, Hamlet finally has his chance. After Hamlet orchestrates the play to determine the “conscience of the king” in scene 2, Claudius’s guilt becomes certain to Hamlet.
What does Claudius tell Laertes are the two reasons he could not kill Hamlet?
In Act Four, scene seven, of Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Claudius offers two reasons to Laertes for why he did not punish Hamlet outright when the Prince killed Polonius. The second reason Claudius gives for not punishing Hamlet is his popularity with the people of Denmark.
What is Hamlet’s state of mind just before he goes to fight with Laertes?
Describe Hamlet’s state of mind before he fences with Laertes. Hamlet is ready to face whatever comes at him, even if it is death. Hamlet has mellowed out but still ready to face whatever comes. Before when he was mad, everything was done out of fear and pain.
How does Hamlet react when he learns of Ophelia’s death?
Hamlet reacts as one would expect a boyfriend to react. He is filled with grief and surprise. He does not know when he returns that Ophelia has gone crazy as the result of her father’s death and Hamlet’s bizarre reactions. His astonishment, though, places him in danger.
What is he that builds stronger than?
“Who builds stronger than a mason, a shipwright, or a carpenter?”
Who builds stronger than a mason a shipwright or a carpenter meaning?
“What is he that builds stronger than either the mason the shipwright or the carpenter” (IV. I. 41) What could the grave digger be meaning by this quote. He means that people are entitled.
What does Hamlet think of the gravedigger’s response?
2. What is Hamlet’s response to the challenge? He will do whatever the king wants him to do. He thinks he will lose.
How does Hamlet find out who is being buried in the grave?
Hamlet asks the gravedigger whose grave he digs, and the gravedigger spars with him verbally, first claiming that the grave is his own, since he is digging it, then that the grave belongs to no man and no woman, because men and women are living things and the occupant of the grave will be dead.
How does Hamlet act when he finds out the skull is Yorick?
Yet upon looking at Yorick’s skull, Hamlet suddenly feels sickened. He realizes what becomes of even the best of people after death—they rot away. This act reveals Hamlet’s deep scorn for his mother for marrying his uncle and sharing his uncle’s bed so soon after his father’s death.