Sunday, February 13, 2011

Hamlet questions 4.5-4.7

4.5

1) She is angry and upset that Hamlet killed her father. She talks about those things perhaps because she is now free from Hamlet and her father controlling her and she speaks what is on her mind.

2) That he is leading a rebellion against his government. He plans to throw out the traditions and ancient customs.

3) His kingdom, crown, life, and everything he owns.

4.6

1) Pirates captured him. The pirates were perhaps working for Norway, or were pirates all on their own.

4.7

1) That Hamlet was trying to kill him (Claudius).

2) One reason is because Gertrude and Hamlet love each other and are really close, and Claudius doesn’t want to lose her. The other reason is that the public loves him.

3) Yes.

4) He says that people are going to place bets on who would win the fencing match, and then Hamlet will be so distracted that Laertes will be able to grab the sharpest sword

5) He says that he will put poison on the end of it, that way when he stabs him, he will be poisoned to death.

6) That Ophelia was climbing a tree to hang her wreath of flowers and fell in the stream below and sang until her clothes were too heavy and wet that they drug her to the bottom and she drowned.