Frailty, thy name is woman!

[sleepygrlgreen]

Is anyone very familiar with Hamlet? ...to the point where they can answer various questions from different acts? If so, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease let me know. I am in dire need of assistance. Thanks.

[justlive]

Nope, afraid not.

We're reading Othello though. It's sort of....dull.

[YourLatestVicti]

Is anyone very familiar with Hamlet? ...to the point where they can answer various questions from different acts? If so, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease let me know. I am in dire need of assistance. Thanks.


As long as the questions aren't too specific I might be able help out. I know a some of the major themes and such.

[sleepygrlgreen]

Some of the questions are pretty specific. The teacher's like "expect them to be HARD." They're primarly all from Act 5. I'll post a couple in a bit. Don't worry about it if you can't help.

[punkpixie]

I can help, I just studied it and got an A for my essay. Shoot.

[sleepygrlgreen]

I'm just gonna post them all. Thank you in advance for ANY help. (this is Act 5)

1. in what ways do hamlet's reactions to the skulls in the graveyard seem to suggest he has changed since we last saw him?

2. how do hamlet's motives for killing claudius shift in his speech beginning "does it not, think thee..."?

3. what concerns of the play are reinforced in the osric episode?

4. why does hamlet "defy augury"?

5. what does laertes say in his motive in still resenting hamlet? how has he already lost this? how does this contribute to the presentation of revenge in the play?

6. how might the dying lines of gertrude, claudius, and laertes be viewed as typical of the way their characters have been presented througout the play?

7. who wins in hamlet? explain.

8. which characters view the ending as poetic justice and which as a massacre? why is there confusion about how to view the final moments of the play? (look carefully at horatio's lines)

9. explain hamlet's line, referring to claudius as "this CANKER of our nature". how is this an appropriate description of claudius?

10. how is suspense heightened during the graveyard scene?

[Louise Heng]

www.sparknotes.com has a really good shakespeare section, and their message boards are pretty helpful.

i'm not much more helpful than the rest though, i've only done R&J and King Lear.

[sleepygrlgreen]

i am officially dubbing ap.net as useless.

these questions are due tomorrow!!!!!