Hamlet Act 1 Questions

Question: what questions would you like to ask hamlet?

Answer: Did you really love ophelia?

since you were so sad would you have let someone else kill you to put you out of your misery?

Question: describe the mood in the opening scene

Answer: scary, night, and eerie

Question: what words and actions create this mood?

Answer: -discussion of the ghost

-threw a sword at the ghost

-huddled together

-hid from the ghost

-night/foggy

Question: who is polonius?

Answer: -ophelia and laertes father

Question: what is polonius’s relationship to hamlet and claudius?

Answer: -counselor to king claudius

-no relationship with hamlet

Question: how does hamlet feel about hamlet and ophelia’s relationship?

Answer: he doesn’t approve of the relationship because he believes he’s using her.

Question: how does hamlet feel about his mother’s new marriage?

Answer: - he’s not happy

-he’s embarrass

-upset about his father

-mourning for his father

-angry

-it’s too soon and the timing isn’t right

Question: why does hamlet keep these feelings to himself?

Answer: so he can play detective

he doesn’t know who he can trust

Question: is the ghost of hamlet’s father real or imagined?

Answer: the ghost is a real ghost in memory of hamlet’s father

Question: do you think that hamlet will be successful in carrying out his father’s wishes?

Answer: he might