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Flashcards by Hannah Vivancos, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Hannah Vivancos
about 6 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Line 25 (Telling Hamlet to avenge him) | Ghost - "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" *Describing that his father was not killed in war but by someone else. *First mention of telling Hamlet to avenge him and to kill Claudius. *Is it really his father if he is telling his son to avenge him by killing a person on purpose which in the Bible states that you will go to hell. |
| Lines 38-39 (Ghost tells Hamlet who killed his father) | Ghost - "The serpent that did sting thy father's life Now wears his crown." *This is the first time that the audience has a clear understanding that Old King Hamlet was murdered by Claudius. *Uses animalistic language such as 'serpent' and 'stung' to contrast against the unnatural way that Hamlet's father died. Poisoned (like a snakes bite or certain insect's stings) *'Serpent' and 'stung' is a metaphor for the poison killing Old Hamlet (Denmark was told that Old Hamlet died form being stung by a snake to cover up the fact the it was actually Claudius who poisoned Old Hamlet). *This could relate back to 'rotten in the state...' as the poison that Claudius used to kill his brother could also emotionally be effecting the citizens of Denmark. |
| Line 42 (Relationship between Claudius and Gertrude) | Ghost - "Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast" *Compares Claudius to a beast as it would mirror the audiences thought - how could his brother betray him like that. This demonstrates Claudius as not having human-like emotions if he is capable of an act like that. *Claudius is a wild animal - out of control. *Demonstrates the anger that the ghost has and helps the audience understand that that is due to the fact that the ghost is actually Old Hamlet or in the form of Old Hamlet. |
| Line 46 (Gertrude's betrayal to Old Hamlet) | Ghost - "my most seeming-virtuous Queen." *Uses the re-occuring theme of appearance vs reality which makes the audience think that the Queen is hiding a secret. *Could be insinuating that the Queen had something to do with or knew about the murder but is acting innocent. *Detached tone by calling her his 'Queen' not his wife or loved one. |
| Line 63-64 (Poison) | Ghost - "And in the porches of my ears did pour The leperous distilment" *Claudius murdered Old Hamlet by pouring poison into his ear when he was sleeping under a tree. *Shakespeare chose Old Hamlet's death to be like this as the pouring of poison into someones ear is a metaphor for lying and hiding the reality, just like Old Hamlet's death was hidden from the people of Denmark. |
| Line 106 (Villain) | Hamlet - "O villain, villain, smiling, damnèd villain!" *The repetition of the word 'villain' demonstrates his pure anger and hatred towards Claudius after hearing what the ghost had to say. *Shakespeare uses the adjective 'damnèd' to foreshadow Claudius' death at the end of the play. *Juxtaposition of 'smiling' and 'damnèd' demonstrates the theme throughout the play of appearance vs reality. |
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