Question: Sort the tiles according to whether or not they express a theme.

Answer: Theme:

• Love conquers all.

• Time heals all wounds.

Not a Theme:

• Friendship

• Achieving a goal

• A girl runs a race.

Question:

Answer: seeing and hearing

Gertrude cannot see what is right in front of her.

The truth is hard to discern.

Question:

Answer: death

Question:

Answer: Death can transform even powerful people like Caesar into ordinary clay.

Question:

Answer: Death conquers everyone in the end.

Question:

Answer: The passage shows that even the young and innocent can meet untimely deaths.

Question:

Answer: Hamlet develops the theme “Everyone is equal in the face of death.” Hamlet introduces this idea after Polonius’s death, and he explores it further when he reflects on how great people become dust.

Question:

Answer: Revenge is ultimately self-defeating.

Question:

Answer: Forgiveness can be more powerful than the desire for revenge.

Question: Write two to three sentences summarizing how the play develops a theme related to the topic of revenge. Be sure to use objective language and include at least one example from the text.

Answer: Hamlet explores the theme “The desire for revenge is destructive and ultimately pointless.” Even though Laertes is ultimately able to forgive Hamlet, Laertes dies in his quest for revenge. This shows both the destructiveness and the futility of trying to get revenge.