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