Hamlet Questions and Answers
Why didn't Hamlet kill Claudius when he had the chance at the end of act 3, scene 3?
What's the meaning of this quote from Hamlet: "We're oft to blame and this is just too much proved that with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the Devil himself"?
In act 1, scene 3 of Hamlet, what is Polonius's advice to Laertes?
In act 2, scene 2, what use does Hamlet plan to make of the players?
Hamlet tries to kill Claudius three times. What are they?
Why does Hamlet decide to pretend to be mad?
What does Hamlet think about suicide? Include textual support.
In which act and scene does Hamlet say/decide to act crazy?
Why does Hamlet tell Ophelia to go "to a nunnery," and what does he give as his reason?
What is the meaning of the following quote? "My words fly up, My thoughts remain below. Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
Why did Hamlet request the actors to perform the play The Murder of Gonzago?
What is the significance of this passage from Hamlet? "Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye look like a friend on Denmark. Do not forever with thy vailèd lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know’st ’tis common. All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity."
Explain the metaphor of the recorder scene. How does Hamlet compare Guildenstern to a recorder in Hamlet?
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Explain Hamlet's lines in act 4, scene 3, after having killed Polonius in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
How does Hamlet react to the death of his father in Hamlet?
What is the importance of the gravedigger scene in the story of Hamlet?
What does it mean when Ophelia says, “Lord, we know what we are, but not what we may be." How do these ideas relate to theme? In what ways does Hamlet struggle with this very idea?
In Hamlet, what does the quote "If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not now, yet it will come" mean?
Why did Hamlet pretend to be crazy?
In the soliloquy of act 2, scene 2—"what a rogue and peasant slave am I"—what is Hamlet saying, and how does this set of words help to move him to action in Hamlet by Shakespeare?
What is Hamlet's tragic flaw?
What is the "play-within-a-play" in Hamlet?
How does Ophelia describe Hamlet's behavior to Polonius in Act 2 of Hamlet by William Shakespeare? What happens in this incident?
How does Hamlet’s encounter with Fortinbras's captain make Hamlet feel guilty?
What does "time is out of joint" mean to Hamlet?
Describe Hamlet's behavior towards Polonius.
What did Hamlet mean when he said "there's a divinity that shapes our ends" in act 5, scene 2?
Explain the significance of Hamlet's soliloquy in act 2, scene 2 of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, including literary devices.
What literary devices are used in the "To be or not to be" soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet?
What quotes in the play prove Hamlet was depressed?
A Man May Fish With The Worm That Hath Eat Of A King, And Eat Of The Fish That Hath Fed Of That Worm.
How does Polonius treat Laertes and Ophelia differently in Hamlet?
What does Polonius assign Reynaldo to do in Hamlet, act 2, scene 1?
Why does Hamlet kill Polonius?
What is the significance of this passage from Hamlet? "My father's brother, but no more like my father / Than I to Hercules"
Why, in Hamlet, is Rosencrantz referred to as a "sponge"?
What is Claudius and Laertes's three-part plan to kill Hamlet?
What does Hamlet's line, "I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams," mean? Not just the obvious, literal explanation, because I understand all the words in their context. But what is Hamlet saying about his mental landscape? What are his bad dreams?
In Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be," what are Hamlet's feelings?
What are some of Hamlet's internal conflicts?
What is the significance of this passage from Hamlet? "My father's spirit in arms! All is not well. / I doubt some foul play. Would the night were...
What does Hamlet mean when he says, "The play's the thing / Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king"?
What is the conclusion of Hamlet?
In act 2, scene 2 of Hamlet, Polonius says, "Since brevity is the soul of wit ... I will be brief." How is this line ironic?
Does Hamlet feel guilty about killing Polonius? Is there a quote for it?
How does Ophelia take the news of her father’s death in Hamlet?
What happens at the end of Hamlet?
What is the prevailing atmosphere in act 1, scene 1 of Hamlet?
Why won’t Hamlet tell Horatio or Marcellus what has transpired between him and the ghost in Hamlet?
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