Hamlet

1. What has Claudius given as the official cause of old Hamlet's death?
Claudius has annnounced to the whole of Denmark that the former King Hamlet was bitten by
a snake while he was asleep in the orchard.

2. How does the prince feel about what has happened, especially his mother's remarriage?
He is surprised at how his mother could marry his uncle, but even more surprised at doing it
within a month of her previous husband's death.Hamlet is nervous about his mother being with
his uncle, Hamlet is alone

3. Why does Hamlet say: Frailty, thy name is woman?

Hamlets says that a woman is frail because he is refurring to his mother's recent marriage with
his uncle.

4. What do you think of the introduction of the ghost in this play?

I think this introduction allows us to understand the ghost's character. We see when Hamlet
approaches the ghost, the ghost immediately speaks.

5. Why does Hamlet question the guards about the ghost's dress and appearance?
the reason Hamlet questions the guards about the ghost's appearance and dress is because
he is mentally fixed on his father's death. When news of a ghost enters his ears, the first
information he wishes to know if it is the figure of his father. While the guards reassure him
that the ghost is dressed as his father, Hamlet is disturbed about why his father would appear
as such a figure.

6. When Hamlet follows the ghost, what story does it tell him, and what does it instruct him to do?
After following the ghost, Hamlet is informed that the ghost is his late father. Along with that he
states that he was in fact murdered with a poisin by the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Finishing,
the ghost asks Hamlet to remember him.

7. How much does Hamlet tell Horatio about this, and why?

Hamlet only answers that there is a villian in Denmark which Horatio responds that they didn't
need a ghost to tell them that. That is all Hamlet reveals to HoratioHe limits their information
because he believes that they will tell someone about the situation.

8. Hamlet seems convinced that the ghost is honest. Is he ready to act on what it has told him?
Hamlet is ready to act on what is told to him because he swears to the ghost that he will
remember his father and do him justice. Before the ghost's appearance we observe Hamlet in
mental turmoil and the ghost's appearances invites him into action of his troubled thougths.
9. How are his suspicions confirmed?
When his father's ghost visits the castle, Hamlet's suspicions are confirmed. The Ghost
complains that he is unable to rest in peace because he was murdered. Claudius, says the
Ghost, poured poison in King Hamlet's ear while the old king napped. Unable to confess and
find salvation, King Hamlet is now consigned, for a time, to spend his days in Purgatory and
walk the earth by night. He entreats Hamlet to avenge his death.

10. How does he do this, by adapting The Murder of Gonzago (a well-known

story)?
The course of Hamlet's revenge.Almost at once, Hamlet has a chance of
revenge, finding Claudius (praying) alone and vulnerable.

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