Hamle t Test |Multiple choice Questions and 100% Correct Solutions | A+ Rated a) Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted color off, And let thine eye lo ok like a friend on Denmark. Do not forever with thy vailèd lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know'st 'tis common. All that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity. b) Ay, madam, it is common. a) If it be, b) Why seems it so parti cular with thee? "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 forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with 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 passeth show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe. - ✔1&2. Gertrude is speaking to Hamlet 3. Gertrude is saying "take off the clothes of mourning, since everyone dies." Hamlet picks up on the word "seems," and says that people don't actually see through the clothes to his actual pain. 4. He challenges the audience to see pas t clothes to who he really is. 'Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father. But you must know your father lost a father, That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound In filial obligation for some term To do obsequious sorrow. But to persever In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief. It shows a will most incorrect to heaven, A hea rt unfortified, a mind impatient, An understanding simple and unschooled. For what we know must be and is as common As any the most vulgar thing to sense, Why should we in our peevish opposition Take it to heart? Fie! 'Tis a fault to heaven, A fault agains t the dead, a fault to nature, To reason most absurd, whose common theme Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, From the first corse till he that died today, "This must be so." We pray you, throw to earth This unprevailing woe, and think of us As o f a father. For let - ✔1. Claudius is speaking 2. He is speaking to Hamlet 3. He tells Hamlet to get over the death since everyone dies, and to start thinking of Claudius as real father 4. Clausius turns to reason, manliness --harsh in his saying to simply "get over it" Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self -slaughter! O God, God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on 't, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this. But two months dead —nay, not so much, not two. So excellent a king, that w as to this Hyperion to a satyr. So loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. —Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet, w ithin a month — Let me not think on 't. Frailty, thy name is woman! — A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body, Like Niobe, all tears. Why she, even she - ✔1. This is a soliloquy 2. N/A 3. How can people so qu ickly get over death of father --hates uncle and how mother so quickly moved on, but must hold tongue and not tell of true feelings 4. Beginning of pain, angst --going back and forth with dialogue, questions self, angry to sad a) But what is your affair in Elsinore? We'll teach you to drink deep ere you depart. b) My lord, I came to see your father's funeral. a) I pray thee, do not mock me, fellow student. I think it was to see my mother's wedding. b) Indeed, my lord, it followed hard upon. a) Thrift, thrift , Horatio! The funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. Would I had met my dearest foe in heaven Or ever I had seen that day, Horatio. My father —methinks I see my father. b) Where, my lord? a) In my mind's eye, Horatio. b) I saw him once. He was a goodly king. a) He was a man. Take him for all in all. I shall not look upon his like again. - ✔1&2. Hamlet/Horatio dialogue 3. Hamlet and Horatio discuss how Horatio knew Hamlet's father --Hamlet sa ys he was a man, a good and bad 4. Very humbled, down to earth view of father --changes to him being a god later in the play Think it no more. For nature, crescent, does not grow alone In thews and bulk, but, as this temple waxes,
