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Act 3

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Questions

1) What is this act mainly about?

2) What does Polonius give Ophelia to hold during her encounter with Hamlet?

3) Where does Claudius decide to send Hamlet?

4) What is the purpose of a play, according to Hamlet?

5) Who does Hamlet ask to watch Claudius?

6) What name does Hamlet give the play?

7) What does Hamlet accuse Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of trying to do?

8) What does Rosencrantz compare the death of a king to?

9) What does Claudius NOT list among the "effects for which I did the murther"?

10) When Hamlet visits Gertrude, who is hidden in her room?

11) Which characters are featured in the pictures contrasted by Hamlet?

12) What kind of weapon does Hamlet compare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's letters to?

13) What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?

"To be, or not to be– that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them."

14) What does the Player Queen mean in the quote below?

"Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear;
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there."

15) What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?

"Why, let the strucken deer go weep,
The hart ungalled play;
For some must watch, while some must sleep:
Thus runs the world away."

16) What does Claudius mean in the quote below?

"My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,
And, like a man to double business bound,
I stand in pause where I shall first begin,
And both neglect."

17) What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?

"Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul
That not your trespass but my madness speaks."

18) Look where Guildenstern says that Hamlet answered their questions "with much forcing of his disposition."

What does "disposition" mean in this context?

19) Look where Hamlet sings, "For thou dost know, O Damon dear, / This realm dismantled was / Of Jove himself; and now reigns here / A very, very– pajock."

What does "realm" mean in this context?

20) Look where Hamlet says, "my two schoolfellows, / Whom I will trust as I will adders fang'd, / They bear the mandate."

What does "mandate" mean in this context?

21) Were there any events that weren't clear to you?

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Act 4, page 0

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ACT IV SCENE I� Setting: A room in the castle.

[Enter KING CLAUDIUS, QUEEN GERTRUDE, ROSENCRANTZ, and GUILDENSTERN ]

KING CLAUDIUS There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves: You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them. Where is your son? QUEEN GERTRUDE Bestow this place on us a little while.

[Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]

Ah, my good lord, what have I seen to–night!
KING CLAUDIUS What, Gertrude? How does Hamlet?
QUEEN GERTRUDE Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend
Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit,
Behind the arras hearing something stir,
Whips out his rapier, cries, 'A rat, a rat!' 10
And, in this brainish apprehension, kills
The unseen good old man.
KING CLAUDIUS O heavy deed!
It had been so with us, had we been there:
His liberty is full of threats to all;
To you yourself, to us, to every one.
Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answer'd?
It will be laid to us, whose providence
Should have kept short, restrain'd and out of haunt,
This mad young man: but so much was our love,
We would not understand what was most fit; 20
But, like the owner of a foul disease,�
To keep it from divulging, let it feed
Even on the pith of Life. Where is he gone?
QUEEN GERTRUDE To draw apart the body he hath kill'd:
O'er whom his very madness, like some ore
Among a mineral of metals base,
Shows itself pure; he weeps for what is done.
KING CLAUDIUS O Gertrude, come away!
The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch,
But we will ship him hence: and this vile deed 30
We must, with all our majesty and skill,
Both countenance and excuse. Ho, Guildenstern!

[Re–enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]

Friends both, go join you with some further aid:
Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain,
And from his mother's closet hath he dragg'd him:
Go seek him out; speak fair, and bring the body
Into the chapel. I pray you, haste in this.

[Exeunt ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN]

Come, Gertrude, we'll call up our wisest friends;
And let them know, both what we mean to do,
And what's untimely done: [so, haply, slander], 40
Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter,
As level as the cannon to his blank,
Transports his poison'd shot, may miss our name,
And hit the woundless air. O, come away!
My soul is full of discord and dismay.
[Exeunt]

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Act 4, page 1

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ACT IV SCENE II� Setting: Another room in the castle.

[Enter HAMLET]

HAMLET Safely stowed. GUILDENSTERN AND ROSENCRANTZ [Within.]�Hamlet! Lord Hamlet! HAMLET But soft, what noise? who calls on Hamlet? O, here they come. [Enter ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN] ROSENCRANTZ What have you done, my lord, with the dead body? HAMLET Compounded it with dust, whereto 'tis kin. ROSENCRANTZ Tell us where 'tis, that we may take it thence And bear it to the chapel. HAMLET Do not believe it. ROSENCRANTZ Believe what? 10 HAMLET That I can keep your counsel and not mine own. Besides, to be demanded of a sponge! what replication should be made by the son of a king? ROSENCRANTZ Take you me for a sponge, my lord? HAMLET Ay, sir, that soaks up the king's countenance, his rewards, his authorities. But such officers do the king best service in the end: he keeps them, like an ape, in the corner of his jaw; first mouthed, to be last swallowed: when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again. 20 ROSENCRANTZ I understand you not, my lord. HAMLET I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear. ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing –– GUILDENSTERN A thing, my lord? HAMLET Of nothing: bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after. [Exeunt]