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ACT II
Tell the story. Which sentence comes first? Write numbers 1–11 next to the sentences.
1) Because he realizes he was wrong about Prince Hamlet’s love for his daughter.
2) Lies.
3) A fish-seller.
4) He requests permission for Fortinbras and his mean to pass quietly through Denmark.
6) He told her to lock herself up in her room and to receive no messages from him.
This act 2 has that title, because Hamlet started acting crazy with everyone. He had a strange behavior to
confuse his uncle, and thus reveal that his uncle Claudius was the murderer of his father.
ACT III
a. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern tell Gertrude that Hamlet was very rude to them.
b. Gertrude thinks that Ophelia can make Hamlet well again with her sweetness and kindness.
c. When Ophelia returns Hamlet his own letters, he recognizes the letters are his.
a. Ophelia feels that Hamlet’s words filled her ears with love and music / crazy words.
b. Claudius feels that Hamlet’s sadness hides a dark secret in his heart / a crazy idea in his mind.
c. Hamlet asks Horatio to watch his uncle / talk to Ophelia while the actors are playing the story.
d. Hamlet tells Ophelia that his father has been dead for two minutes / two hours.
Because of his uncle, Hamlet says evil secrets. He knows that Claudius murdered his father. Evil secrets
that nobody knew; all were blinded by the new King Claudius, unaware that he is a murderer who stole
What is happening in Hamlet´s mind at this point in the play? Write a brief analysis of this
soliloquy.
To be or not to be is that an action, death, or question? Analysis of this single soliloquy can be the
simplest interpretation, and the one that connects with most people, is of the ultimate purpose behind the
life of an individual. Is there any meaning to life when all lives end in death? What of death itself: is
there anything after life, or does the human mind, the personality, electrical signals, soul, simply vanish
into nothingness? What reason is there to strive if life ends with a death that entirely destroys everything
unique about an individual? But if there is some sort of afterlife, what might it be? It could and likely is
so immense and mysterious that the human mind cannot encompass it. If that is the case, then the question
again follows: what reason is there to strive in the minor world of the living if the dreams (afterlife) that