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She is in Act 1 Scene 2 ("Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off."), Act 2 Scene 2 ("I doubt it is no other but the main: his father's death and our o'erhasty marriage"), Act 3 Scene 1 ("And for your part, Ophelia, I wish that your good beauties be the happy cause of Hamlet's wildness"), Act 3, Scene 2 ("The lady doth protest too much methinks"), Act 3, Scene 4 (The Closet Scene, her big scene "O Hamlet thou hast cleft my heart in twain!"), Act 4, Scene 1 ("Mad as the sea and wind when both contend"), Act 4 Scene 5 ("So full of artful jealousy is guilt it spills itself in fearing to be spilt"), Act 4 Scene 7 ("There is a willow grows aslant the brook"), and Act 5 Scene 2 ("No, no, the drink, the drink!")
That's nine of the twenty scenes--she's on stage a lot.
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What are some questions to ask Hamlet?
Some unanswered questions in Hamlet are: Does Hamlet truly go "mad" or is it all an act? Does it matter? Why doesn't anybody dislike Claudius even though he's a murderer? Did Gertrude play a part in Hamlet's father's death? Does the ghost of Hamlet's father tell him not to blame Gertrude, Hamlet's mother? Does Hamlet love Ophelia? Is Hamlet in love with his mother? If he is in love with his mother is he also still in love with Ophelia?
What do rosencrantz and guildenstern report to claudius and Gertrude?
To take Hamlet to England to be killed, Claudius can't have Hamlet killed in Denmark because it would upset Queen Gertrude along with many others who still praise him even though he seems to have lost his mind. However on the trip to England Hamlet changes out the letters to say kill these men---Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The priates of the ship are told that they will be paid well if they send Hamlet back. And they believe him due to his charming personality and style of clothing which is not commender fashioned. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are sent to the King of England and take the punishment of what was supposed to be Hamlet's death.
What role does Gertrude play in Hamlet?
She is a remarkably intelligent woman with a gift of terse observation. Her terseness makes her a great foil for Polonius. She also serves the function of preventing the poisoned wine from killing Hamlet. The closet scene is one of the most powerful in the play and brings out a number of important characteristics of Hamlet, as well as being the scene of the Polonius murder. She doesnt have much of a personality, she shows women are "easily led" and marrys her husbands brother right after he dies
How many soliloquies are there in 'Hamlet'?
there are over all eleven soliloquies in hamlet
How many times does the ghost appear in Hamlet?
He appears three times, in four different scenes. First he appears to Marcellus, Bernardo and Horatio in Act one Scene 1. He later appears to them with Hamlet in Act 1 Scene 4. Hamlet follows the ghost offstage then reappears chasing him in Act 1 Scene 5. The two scenes are part of the same appearance. Finally, the ghost appears briefly in the closet scene, Act 3 Scene 4.
Why does Hamlet rage against his mother?
Because she married the brother of her very recently dead husband. Her first husband was both the previous king and Hamlet's father. Hamlet eventually learns that his uncle, now his stepfather and the new King of Denmark, murdered his father in order to steal both his wife and his crown. Hamlet makes many bitter comments about the 'incestuous' marriage bed and the unseemly haste with which his mother, Gertrude, married her husband's brother. When he is convinced that his uncle actually did murder his father, at first doubting his own sanity after seeing and speaking with his father's ghost, Hamlet kills his uncle. Gertrude, who had no part in her first husband's murder, is slain by accident, and Hamlet himself is murdered during the climactic final scenes.
What are some questions to ask Hamlet?
Some unanswered questions in Hamlet are: Does Hamlet truly go "mad" or is it all an act? Does it matter? Why doesn't anybody dislike Claudius even though he's a murderer? Did Gertrude play a part in Hamlet's father's death? Does the ghost of Hamlet's father tell him not to blame Gertrude, Hamlet's mother? Does Hamlet love Ophelia? Is Hamlet in love with his mother? If he is in love with his mother is he also still in love with Ophelia?
Consider how Gertrude and Ophelia are characterized in Hamlet What does that make about the society in which they lived?
Gertrude and Ophelia as for many women of their society don't have authority in many situations. For some reason they long to have a man above them having power to rule at least over them. For example, Gertrude marries Claudius very soon after the death of her first husband even though she did love her first hussy. Ophelia is deeply in love with Hamlet and even after the fact that he willing tells her to go to the nunnery. Along with other horrible things to say to her.
How many deaths in the play result directly or indirectly from Hamlet's plot for revenge?
If we take it that Hamlet killed Polonius believing him to be the king, and therefore as a part of his plot for revenge, then Polonius's death, and indirectly Ophelia's arise from his act of revenge. Claudius of course dies from Hamlet's revenge. Gertrude, Laertes and Hamlet die as a result of Laertes and Claudius's plot. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern die just because Hamlet doesn't much like them.
How many people die in Hamlet?
There are eight individuals who die during the play, three of them offstage :Hamlet himself, King Claudius and Queen Gertrude, Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Hamlet's father is dead before the play opens, and only his Ghost appears.(It's also implied that the servant Reynaldo dies, although that has to be interpreted.)
What do rosencrantz and guildenstern report to claudius and Gertrude?
To take Hamlet to England to be killed, Claudius can't have Hamlet killed in Denmark because it would upset Queen Gertrude along with many others who still praise him even though he seems to have lost his mind. However on the trip to England Hamlet changes out the letters to say kill these men---Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The priates of the ship are told that they will be paid well if they send Hamlet back. And they believe him due to his charming personality and style of clothing which is not commender fashioned. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are sent to the King of England and take the punishment of what was supposed to be Hamlet's death.
What role does Gertrude play in Hamlet?
She is a remarkably intelligent woman with a gift of terse observation. Her terseness makes her a great foil for Polonius. She also serves the function of preventing the poisoned wine from killing Hamlet. The closet scene is one of the most powerful in the play and brings out a number of important characteristics of Hamlet, as well as being the scene of the Polonius murder. She doesnt have much of a personality, she shows women are "easily led" and marrys her husbands brother right after he dies
How many pages does Dating Hamlet have?
Dating Hamlet has 176 pages.
How many pages does The Klingon Hamlet have?
The Klingon Hamlet has 219 pages.
How many pages does Hamlet's Father have?
Hamlet's Father has 104 pages.
How many soliloquies are there in 'Hamlet'?
there are over all eleven soliloquies in hamlet
Why does shakespeare introduce the element of madness in Hamlet?
It was in his source. An essential part of the Hamlet story is that Hamlet feigns madness to keep his profile low while he plots the downfall of his uncle. Thus we hear that Hamlet will "put an antic disposition on" immediately after seeing the ghost. In the sources, Hamlet's assumed lunacy convinces his uncle that he is not a danger, so that he doesn't do Hamlet in. In Shakespeare's story, Claudius is not so easily fooled, and he does try to do Hamlet in, but it is his political sense and his love for Gertrude which keep him from doing it in an obvious way. Hamlet gets lucky and wriggles out of Claudius's trap. There is the additional element of lunacy in poor Ophelia. Her insanity is genuine, but unfortunately nobody believes that she drowned because she was insane, causing her to be buried without Christian rites. It is an irony that Hamlet's fake madness takes so many people in, yet Ophelia's real madness does not.
