Act 5

1. The gravedigger sings of death after love, and the people get old, die, and are given to the land. This fits into the play because Hamlet and Ophelia had love but it had to end because of her death. And earlier in the play the talk about how a king dies, worms eat his body, fish eat the worms, and the people eat the fish. The circle of life.
2. When Hamlet speaks to Yorik’s skull it shows that he is legitimately sad, he thought very highly of Yorik. With Hamlet’s fathers death, Hamlet just moped around mourning, dressed in black, then looking for revenge. His father’s death was of lesser meaning to him because he become consumed with trying to avenge him. With Ophelia Hamlet seems to love her at times, and he seems to not care at all about her at other times. With Yorik, his feelings are not mixed.
3. Hamlet is thirty years old because he asked the gravedigger how long he’d been grave-digging and he said “It was that very day that young Hamlet was born” “I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years.”
4. This argument sets up the sword fight scene between Hamlet and Laertes, which is when Hamlet finally takes some action.
5. It shows his ability to go through with his plans, leading the way to his plan to eventually kill Claudius. It shows that his anger is growing and he doesn’t care what he has to do to get revenge. “They are not near my conscience.” He doesn’t feel any sorrow for their deaths or being the cause of their deaths because he has accepted the fact that no one can be trusted.
6. Hamlet has become consumed with the idea of just murdering Claudius. It was at first to avenge his fathers murder, and that only. Hamlet then seems to forget that, he wants to kill Claudius now because he married his mother, and stepped between Hamlet and the throne.
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9. Laertes’s reason to kill Hamelt is to keep his honor, he has already lost because he had to trick Hamlet, and cheat by using poison to kill him. He did not fight in an honorable way, so the idea of fighting to keep his honor is contradicting.
10. Gertrude calls out to her son as she dies because she is dependant upon men. The King calls out to everyone in the castle, this shows that he is weak, he cannot fight his own battles, throughout the play he was having people do everything for him. He only takes, and uses. Laertes asks for forgiveness before he dies.
11. Fortinbras wins; he did not die, go insane or have a loved one killed. He gets to avenge his father and take over Denmark.

Hamlet 3.3 3.4

1. Hamlet has caused the memory of murdering King Hamlet come back to Claudius and make him feel guilt.
2. Exposition: Background information of Fortinbras. King Hamlet is dead, Gertrude has married Claudius.

Inciting Event: the ghost appears and speaks to Hamlet and tells him about his murder.

Rising Action: Hamlet acts mad, Ophelia gives back love letters, Hamlet is spied on, Hamlet decides not to kill Claudius yet.

1. Send them to England and have them killed.
2. Spy. He plans on hiding in Gertrude's room and listen to what Hamlet says to her.
3. He admits to murdering King Hamlet. He says he cannot pray.
4. Because Claudius says he cannot pray.
5. Hamlet does not kill the King because he is praying and Hamlet thinks that if he is killed while praying he'll go to heaven. Hamlet wants the King to go to hell so he decides to wait until he is engaging in sin.

1. Polonius tells Gertrude to tell Hamlet that his actions are causing a lot of trouble and he is making problems for the King. He tells her to be stern with him.
2. Hamlet says this because he has discovered that someone is spying on him. He says he is a rat and his life is only worth one ducat.
3. Hamlet is in a way accusing his mother of killing his father, or at least helping in the murder.
4. Because Hamlet speaks to her in a rude way, and she doesn't think she has done anything wrong.
5. He says his father looked like a man blessed by the gods, and Claudius looks like a mildewed ear.
6. Claudius is a lesser man, that brings down the people around him.
7. It is disturbing because Gertrude is sleeping with her old husbands brother.
8. The ghost of his father appears again. He tells him to continue with the point, kill Claudius. And it tells him to help his mother, to tell not to sleep with Claudius.

Hamlet Soliloquy 1.2

Oh how I wish my flesh would melt off my body, or that God had not made sin of suicide. Oh God, how pointless and meaningless this life has become to me! It is like a garden that has not been weeded and has gone to waste, possessed by things rank in nature. My father, not even two months has been dead, such an excellent king, so loving to my mother that he prevented the wind from touching her face to rough. Must I remember? How she would hang on him, the more she was with him the more her need for him grew. But still, within only a month, not long enough for her funeral shoes to break in, she married my uncle. A beast would have mourned his death longer! My father’s brother, no more alike are they than I am to Hercules. Within a month, as soon as her tears dried she remarried. So soon she was to move to the sheets of someone so close, it is not good, nor will good ever come from this. But I cannot speak of this anymore.