{"id":11562,"date":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T21:56:35","slug":"HamletB","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/HamletB\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Text of Book<\/u><\/h2>\n

Act 2, page 1<\/a><\/h3>\n

Act 2, page 2<\/a><\/h3>\n

Questions<\/u><\/h2>\n\n\n
1)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat is this act mainly about?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
2)<\/b><\/td>\nWhy does Polonius ask Reynaldo to spread unflattering rumors about Laertes?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
3)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat is strange about Hamlet's appearance when Ophelia describes him?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
4)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat does Polonius immediately decide is at the root of Hamlet's behavior?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
5)<\/b><\/td>\nWhy does Claudius choose Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to keep an eye on Hamlet?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
6)<\/b><\/td>\nWhere was Fortinbras originally preparing to attack?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
7)<\/b><\/td>\nWhy do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern believe Hamlet sees Denmark as a prison?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
8)<\/b><\/td>\nWhy are the players becoming less popular in the city?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
9)<\/b><\/td>\nWhich biblical judge does Hamlet compare Polonius to?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
10)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat is the topic of the speech Hamlet, and then the first player, performs?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
11)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat does Hamlet feel the first player has that he himself lacks?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
12)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat kind of play does Hamlet decide to have the players perform?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
13)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat does Polonius mean in the quote below?<\/p>\n

"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."<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
14)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat does Claudius mean in the quote below?<\/p>\n

"Moreover that we much did long to see you,
The need we have to use you did provoke
Our hasty sending."<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
15)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat does Polonius mean in the quote below?<\/p>\n

"How pregnant sometimes his replies are! a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason and sanity could not so prosperously be delivered of."<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
16)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat does Hamlet mean in the quote below?<\/p>\n

"It is not very strange; for my uncle is King of Denmark, and those that would make mows at him while my father lived give twenty, forty, fifty, a hundred ducats apiece for his picture in little."<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
17)<\/b><\/td>\nWhat does Hamlet mean in the quote below?<\/p>\n

"Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? Use them after your own honour and dignity."<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
18)<\/b><\/td>\nLook where Polonius says "And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, \/ With windlasses and with assays of bias, \/ By indirections find directions out."<\/p>\n

What does "bias" mean in this context?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
19)<\/b><\/td>\nLook where Hamlet's love letter reads "O dear Ophelia, I am ill at these numbers; I have not art to reckon my groans."<\/p>\n

What does "reckon" mean in this context?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
20)<\/b><\/td>\nLook where Hamlet calls the players "the abstract and brief chronicles of the time."<\/p>\n

What does "abstract" mean in this context?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

<\/p>\n\n\n
21)<\/b><\/td>\nWere there any events that weren't clear to you?<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

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Text of Book Act 2, page 1 Act 2, page 2 Questions 1) What is this act mainly about? 2) Why does Polonius ask Reynaldo to spread unflattering rumors about Laertes? 3) What is strange about Hamlet's appearance when Ophelia describes him? 4) What does Polonius immediately decide is at the root of Hamlet's behavior? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-The-Picture-of-Dorian-Gray"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myedme.com\/login\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}