The report that Hamlet says he feels confused but doesnt want to be questioned why he is acting as he is. They say that he wants everybody to go to a play that is being put on.
2. Claudious realizes that the Ghost was right about the King killing Hamlets father.
3. What plan do Polonius, Claudius and Ophelia now put into action?
Polonius and Cluadius plan to hide and listen to Ophelia and Hamlet interact with each-other. Ophelia makes him react by giving back his love letters showing him that the relationship is over.
4. What is the nature of Hamlet's soliloquy, lines 57-91?
Hamlet is questioning whether it is better to live and suffer through life or to kill oneself. He talks about which is nobler and that the only reason people do not die early or commit suicide is because they are afraid of what the afterlife.
5. What is Hamlet's main argument against suicide?
He thinks that it is more noble to fight through life than to kill oneself. He also thinks that people are afraid of what comes after life so that they will not kill themselves.
6. Why does Hamlet treat Ophelia as cruelly as he does? What has changed him?
Hamlet treats Ophelia poorly because she has in a sense betrayed him. She brings back his loves letters to him telling him the relationship is over. Hamlet is Offended by this as he has at least a little love for her considering the letters. He then treats her more poorly when he realizes she is being used to be spied upon by the king and her father. He has been changed because he feels everybody has been turning against him since he found out the truth about his fathers death.
7. What thinly veiled threat to Claudius does Hamlet voice, after he becomes of his hidden presence? (lines 148-150)
"Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in's own house."
Is hamlet saying that Cluadius is a fool in his own home or is he saying that Cluaius is playing Hamlet like a fool? Or is he commenting on how Cluadious is a fool and can only trick people in his own house such as he did to his father?
8. At the end of this scene, what does the King decide to do with Hamlet?
Scene 2:The king is going to send Hamlet to England to try and collect the money they own them in hopes that it will flush out any bad thoughts he has.
9. What qualities in Horatio cause Hamlet to enlist his assistance?
Hamlet believes that Horatio doesn't take sides or make judgments based off of anything but what the facts are. He feels he is trust worthy and is also the guy who pointed out the ghost to him in the first place.
10. What does Hamlet ask Horatio to do?
He asks him to look at the King when the scene comes on that is about him killing Hamlets father and see if the King looks guilty or not. If he does then the Ghost is Hamlets father and if he doesn't then the Ghost is something else.
11. Summarize what happens in the play-within-a-play.
The Queen and King talk to each other and the Queen vows that she will never take another husband after the first because it would be like killing the old husband. She also says that you would never marry again unless it were for money or something other than love. The king tells her that things might change after he dies as he is going to die soon. After the Queen leaves him some guy sneaks in and poors poison into the Kings ear.
12. Why, in line 233, does Hamlet refer to the play-within-a-play as "The Mouse-trap"?
He calls it "The Mouse-Trap" because the play is a trap for his uncle. He also views his uncle as a undesirable vermin, mouse are also creatures that steel things from people such as food, in this case it is Hamlets father.
13. What is the King's reaction to the play?
The King gets up out of his chair and demands for himself to be gotten out of the building. He is definitely shocked by the play as he has killed the King and realizes he has been called out. I think that if he was just mad at Hamlet for accusing him of killing the king when he didn't he would just get mad and yell at Hamlet rather than running like a victim.
14. In lines 354-363, to what object does Hamlet compare himself? Why?
He compares himself to a little organ or a pipe. He does this because he thinks that Guildenstern is trying to play him like a puppet or a pipe. However Hamlet says he cannot be played like a pipe, cant simply be played out from high to low notes but is in idea a much more complex instrument.
15. As Hamlet goes to his mother at the end of this scene, what does he admonish himself
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