Confront Hamlet directly about his feelings Get Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to talk with Hamlet about Ophelia Have Ophelia write Hamlet a love letter and see how he responds Spy on an arranged meeting between Hamlet and Ophelia How does Hamlet initially respond in Act 2, Scene 2 when Polonius ...
As Hamlet endeavors to discover—and root out—the “rotten” core of Denmark, he… read analysis of Poison, Corruption, Death Previous Act 5, Scene 2 Next Action and Inaction Cite This Page Ask LitCharts AI Hello! I'm LitCharts AI I can answer any question about Hamlet instantly. ...
While debriefing their encounter with Hamlet in the beginning of Act 2, Guildenstern shares with Rosencrantz the story of a Chinese philosopher: A Chinaman of the T’ang Dynasty—and, by which definition, a philosopher—dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure...
Hamlet is not himself, outside or in. Related Characters: Rosencrantz (speaker), Hamlet Related Themes: Page Number and Citation: 67 Cite this Quote Explanation and Analysis: Unlock with LitCharts A+ Well, if it isn't—! No, wait a minute, don't tell me—it's a long time ...
While a child’s honor-bound duty to his or her parent is complex, to say the least, in the world of Hamlet and King Lear, in Romeo and Juliet, it is portrayed outrightly as an absurd, punitive, and even cruel demand. Romeo and Juliet are bound to honor their families’ hatred of ...
In Act 1, Scene 2, Claudius asks Hamlet why he's so gloomy by using a metaphor of about "clouds" hanging on him: CLAUDIUS How is it that the clouds still hang on you? HAMLET Not so, my lord. I am too much i' the sun. Hamlet uses the phrase "in the sun" to deny that he'...
Hamlet’s last soliloquy takes place in Act 4, Scene 4. Like his previous moments of pause, Hamlet uses the privacy of an empty stage to reflect on his behavior. By this point in the play, he has begun to understand a frustrating pattern in his behavior: he is paralyzed by his fear ...
While Hamlet asks this question without expecting an answer (he's alone when he asks it), he's not asking in order to persuade or make a point. It's a legitimate expression of doubt, which leads Hamlet into a philosophical debate about whether one should face the expected miseries of lif...
Three or four miles out into the hills, following a rail siding, they came to the industrial hamlet of Brinnlitz, and saw ahead in thin morning light the solid bulk of the Hoffman annex transformed into Arbeitslager (Labor Camp) Brinnlitz, with watchtowers, a wire fence encircling it, ...
His own head, if served on a platter like John the Baptist, would be “slightly bald”; he asserts that if he appeared in Hamlet, he would be a petty “attendant lord” or even a “Fool.” These self-deprecations serve to deflate the literary traditions to which the poem alludes. ...