TEST FORMAT 10 multiple choice 25 points 5

TEST FORMAT • 10 multiple choice – 25 points • 5 short answer – 25 points • 5 extra credit questions – 5 points • 1 page long essay – 50 points

KNOW WHO THE CHARACTERS ARE • Know the relationships and who kills who: • Hamlet and Claudius • Laertes, Ophelia, and Polonius • Ophelia and Hamlet • Claudius and Gertrude • Gertrude and Hamlet • Hamlet and Horatio

HOW IS HAMLET AS A HERO • What is his motivation? • What is his fatal flaw? • Does he accomplish his goal? • What mistakes does he make along the way? • What are the consequences?

HAMLET’S FOILS • Who are they? • How do they act as his foils? • What do we learn from the contrast?

MEANING? • HAMLET kind. [Aside] A little more than kin, and less than

MEANING? OPHELIA I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, 50 And recks not his own rede.

MEANING? HAMLET: There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

MEANING? To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause:

MEANING? KING CLAUDIUS HAMLET What do you call the play? The Mouse-trap. Marry, how? Tropically. This play is the image of a murder done in Vienna: Gonzago is the duke's name; his wife, Baptista: you shall see anon; 'tis a knavish piece of work: but what o' that? your majesty and we that have free souls, it touches us not:

MEANING? KING CLAUDIUS [Rising] My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

MEANING? What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

PROSE, VERSE, AND RHYME • When is each used in the play?