What will Hamlet and Horatio be doing during the play?
What does Hamlet ask Horatio to do during the “play?” To observe and analyze the king and tell him after the play what he thought about it.
What does Hamlet ask Horatio to do during the scene in the play where the king is poisoned?
What does Hamlet ask Horatio to do for him? He asks him to watch Claudius’ reactions to the play.
What is Horatio supposed to be doing during the performance?
He asks Horatio to watch Claudius carefully, just as he intends to do. He hopes that the king will somehow react out of guilt for what he sees, and he wants Horatio to observe the king and tell him later, after the play, what he thought.
What does Hamlet do during the play?
What does Hamlet do during the performance? He sneaks out. He explains everyone’s behavior. He tries to make up with Ophelia.
Why does Hamlet not kill Claudius as he is praying?
Hamlet does not kill Claudius when he assumes that he is praying because he doesn’t want Claudius to have the luxury of going to heaven while his father, unjustly murdered, suffers in hell. He doesn’t want to do Claudius the “favor” of sending him to heaven.
What is the answer to Hamlet’s To Be or Not To Be?
The following responses to Hamlet’s big question each win a random book. “There is only one philosophical problem which is really serious: suicide. To decide whether life is or is not worth living.” So opined Albert Camus, and he proffered an answer too.
How does Hamlet describe life in To Be or Not To Be?
Hamlet is thinking about life and death and pondering a state of being versus a state of not being – being alive and being dead. The balance continues with a consideration of the way one deals with life and death. Life is a lack of power: the living are at the mercy of the blows of outrageous fortune.
What is the shortest soliloquy in Hamlet?
BACKGROUND: Hamlet’s Fifth Soliloquy falls in the Act 3, Scene 2 prior to going in his mother’s chambers for a conversation. Hamlet asks for a short amount of time alone, and in this short period, he delivers this soliloquy, in which he plans out the conversation.
What does Hamlet’s last soliloquy mean?
Hamlet’s last soliloquy is crucial to our understanding of his character development. By the end of the soliloquy, Hamlet brings to a halt his solemn contemplation on the immoral act of murderous revenge, and finally accepts it as his necessary duty.
What does Hamlet’s fifth soliloquy mean?
Pd.5. Not only does this soliloquy mentally prepare Hamlet for one of the most important conversations he has in the play, it also prepares the reader for the climax. The soliloquy shows Hamlet’s malicious thoughts, and thirst for revenge as well as violence.
What is revealed by Claudius’s soliloquy beginning with O my offense is rank it smells to heaven?
Who said O my offense is rank it smells to heaven? In this soliloquy, Claudius confesses the deed and recoils at its smell. It is “rank” (that is, “rancid”), so rank that the vile odor wafts all the way to heaven.
Why look you now how unworthy a thing?
Why, look you now how unworthy a thing you make of me: you would play upon me. You would seem to know my stops, you would pluck out the heart of my mystery, you would sound me from my lowest note to my compass. And there is much music, excellent voice, in this little organ.