Hamlet Swears Horatio To Two Things What Are They

Question: Identify Bernardo, Francisco, Marcellus, Horatio, and King Hamlet

Answer: Bernardo, Francisco, Marcellus:

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Horatio: a friend of Hamlet’s

King Hamlet: the former king who is dead (Ghost)

Question: What had Bernardo seen at a prior watch?

Answer: 2 nights previous, Ghost of King Hamlet

Question: Why does Marcellus think Horatio should speak to the ghost?

Answer: Because he knew King Hamlet personally and he is more respected

Question: What does young Fortinbras want to do?

Answer: Young Fortinbras wants to regain the lands his father had lost

Question: Identify King Claudius, Queen Gertrude, Laertes, and Polonius

Answer: King Hamlet’s brother and new king of Denmark, /Hamlet’s mother, the queen, newly married to Claudius, /son of Polonius and contemporary of Hamlet,/ Polonius is father of Ophelia and Laertes and is King Claudius’ counselor.

Question: Where does Claudius send Cornelius and Voltimand?

Answer: To Norway to make sure the King there knows what Fortinbras is up to.

Question: What does the King tell Hamlet?

Answer: That he needs to be done with mourning for his father, that the continual mourning makes him look weak, and that he wants Hamlet not to go back to Wittenberg.

Question: What news does Horatio bring Hamlet?

Answer: That his father’s ghost has been seen on the ramparts of the castle.

Question: What does Hamlet decide to do after he hears Horatio’s news?

Answer: He is going to keep watch with the guards and try to see the ghost.

Question: Hamlet swears Horatio to two things. What are they?

Answer: Don’t tell anyone about the ghost, and no matter how Hamlet behaves, don’t say anything about it.