Hamlet by

Shakespeare
 Hamlet
Themes:
Questioning
(identity)
Playing Parts
(identity)
The Meaning of
Existence
Thoughts vs.
Action
Complexities of
Family:
(Gertrude and
 Get out a piece of paper
and be ready to answer
these questions after I show
1.you
Why this
is the nail-biting clip
son so angry with his
mother?
2. Why is the mother so worried
about her son?
3. Who gets killed and why?
4. Who so you think the ghost is and
what is his purpose in this scene?
 Reasons why Hamlet is
Shakespeares most famous
Prince of Denmark
play
Hamlet is so humandespite the fact that he is the

Have you ever felt as if everyone around you is crazy

even those you love? Consequently, do you
sometimes doubt yourself?
Hamlets soliloquies (To be or not to be; What is a
Man?; Get thee to a nunnery)
His sense of loneliness
His rash behavior, his good intentions, his
desperation
The questions posed by Hamlet and other characters
in the play (over 250 questions posed in the play
the first line is a question)
 Turn your paper over and
answer these questions
1. What would it feel like to be gone for the summer then come home to
discover that your dad is dead?
2. What would it feel like if you found not only that your dad is dead but
that your mother has remarried?
3. What would it feel like if the man your mother remarried is a power
hungry
jerk who has taken over the business your dad ran?
4. What action, if any, would you take in these circumstances?
5. What if a trusted friend came to you and told you that he suspects that
your father was murdered by your new stepfather? What would you
do?
6. If you wanted to set a trap to get your new stepfather to confess to the
murder, how would you go about it?
7. How would you feel if your mother was overly demonstrative with her
new husband -- always hanging on him and kissing him in your
presence?
8. If you, for some strange reason, wanted to make people believe you are
insane, how would you do it?
9. If you discovered that a close friend has been hired to spy on you, what
would you do?