What does Hamlet suggest to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Act 2, Scene 2 about his madness? 15 of 21 That it is not something he can control That it is an act and he is mad only on occasion That it is the result of his father's death That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern will never un...
Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 3 Quiz 4 questions New! Understand every line of Hamlet. Read our modern English translation. Next Act 3, Scene 4 Quiz Get 3 quizzes by signing up for a free account Test your knowledge of Act 3, Scene 3. Submit your answers to see your results and get...
Act 2, Scene 2 Quotes O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?Deny thy father and refuse thy name;Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,And I'll no longer be a Capulet. Related Characters: Juliet (speaker), Romeo Related Themes: Page Number and Citation: 2.2.36-39 Cite...
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...
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'...
At this moment, the girls' stories come to life. The March girls find in the world what they could only imagine in childhood. Hamlet's mother constitutes a fanciful vision compared to the regularity of the Marches' life in the first part of the novel. Alcott also makes a more general re...
Act 4, Scene 4 Explanation and Analysis—Thinking too Precisely: 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 ...
In this example from Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Claudius’s words contain an anachronism that Shakespeare may or may not have intended to include in the text. For your intent In going back to school in Wittenberg, It is most retrograde to our desire; And we beseech you...
Previous Act 5, Scene 2 Cite This Page About the Translator: Bailey Sincox Bailey Sincox is a PhD student in English at Harvard University, where she researches the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Her teaching experience includes accessible online courses with edX on Hamlet and...
No! I'm not Prince Hamlet, and I was never meant to be. I'm just a background character, a lord following the prince who can serve to fill a crowd, begin a scene or two, or give the prince advice. No doubt I'm an easy tool, subservient and happy to be useful. I'm polite,...