Category: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Question #13
What does Polonius mean in the quote below?
"But breathe his faults so quaintly
That they may seem the taints of liberty,
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
Of general assault."
Question #2
What does Polonius give Ophelia to hold during her encounter with Hamlet?
Question #18
Look where Guildenstern says that Hamlet answered their questions "with much forcing of his disposition."
What does "disposition" mean in this context?
Question #4
Why does Claudius refrain from openly punishing Hamlet for murder?
Question #20
Look where Claudius worries about his scheme: "If this should fall, / And that our drift look through our bad performance. / 'Twere better not assay'd."
What does "drift" mean in this context?
Question #11
Who does Hamlet name as the next ruler of Denmark?
Question #14
What does Claudius mean in the quote below?
"Moreover that we much did long to see you,
The need we have to use you did provoke
Our hasty sending."
Question #3
Where does Claudius decide to send Hamlet?
Question #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?