Question #12
How does Ophelia die?
Question #13
What does Claudius mean in the quote below?
"It had been so with us, had we been there."
Question #14
What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear."
Question #15
What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"How all occasions do inform against me
And spur my dull revenge!"
Question #16
What does Gertrude mean in the quote below?
"So full of artless jealousy is guilt
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
Question #17
What does Claudius mean in the quote below?
"But that I know love is begun by time,
And that I see, in passages of proof,
Time qualifies the spark and fire of it."
Question #18
Look where Claudius says of Hamlet's exile that "This sudden sending him away must seem / Deliberate pause." What does "deliberate" mean in this context?
Question #19
Look where Hamlet observes that the Fortinbras's soldiers "fight for a plot / Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause."
What does "plot" mean in this context?
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?