1.2-1.3-1-9&1-10

HAMLET ACT 1 Scene 2
1. What is odd about Hamlet’s appearance in the opening of scene two?
He is compleatly dressed in black
2. Explain (give at least two reasons) why Claudius needs to justify his marriage in the opening of scene two.
a. He married his brother's widow. He married her between 1-2 months later

3. Laertes asks the King for leave to do what, specifically?
Go to France (probobly there is a lady friend involved)
4. Explain Hamlet’s insult when he says, “A little more than kin and less than kind.”
He didn't want his mom to marry his uncle (at least not so fast)
5. Explain Hamlet’s use of pun in the line, “Not so my lord, I am too much in the sun.”
He is too much his father's son to be corrupted by him
6. In Hamlet’s first soliloquy it is obvious that what troubles him most is?
That his mom married his uncle and so soon. He is also troubled by his father's death
7. What does Hamlet mean by the following lines
“Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not ‘seems’.
‘Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forc’d breath,
No, nore the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected havior of the visage,
Together will all forms, moods, shapes of grief,
That can denote me truly. These indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play;
But I have that within which passes show,
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

He is jabing at her quick marrage to his uncle and she and the new king seem to be the only ones not morning his father's death
8. What does Hamlet say about the baked meats and the funeral and the wedding.
That the left-over food from the funeral had niether gone bad nor been eaten by the time of, and were used for the wedding.
9. What news does Horatio, Marcellus and Barnardo bring to Hamlet.
His father's ghost has been on the grounds and that the ghost is definably the king.
Act 1 scenes 3-4

1) What is Laertes advice to Ophelia?
That her love is a prince and probobly not going to be able to marry her (aranged marrage)
2) How does “The canker galls the infants of the spring/ too oft before their buttons be disclos’d” fit into the ideology of the decaying garden?

The worm is what kills the flower befor it can bloom that is if it will. (words are poison)3) What analogy does Ophelia give to her brother as an answer to his advice? What does she mean?
I shall th'effect...And recks not his own rede. (45-52)
She tells him she will close her heart but warns him not to become a hypocrite about his advice when he is in France (reinforcing the idea that he is going to see a lady friend)
4) List five of the “few precepts” that Polonius gives to Laertes.
1. Don't be vulgar
2. Keep your friends close
3. Be kind but not too kind
4. Still your tongue
5. Niether a barrower nor lender be 


5) In lines 105-109, what is the metaphor that Polonius uses to describe Hamlet’s words of love?
He is turning her word choice against her and makes fun of her for being "stupid" for falling for Hamlet and his words
6) List and explain one metaphor found in the lines 115-135.
"When the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows. These blazes, daughter, Giving more light than heat, extinct in both even in their promise as it is a-making, You must not take for fire."

He is saying Hamlet's words are all bark and no bite, and that his love for her will go out before he can act on his words

7) What is Polonius’ command to Ophelia?
To never go near Hamlet again (he is a control freak)