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Assignment:
Some questions for your postings on Shakespeare's Hamlet:
1. What are some examples of people spying on Hamlet, and what are they trying to learn about him?
2. What does Hamlet hope to achieve by putting on the play at the end of Act 2?
3. Does Ophelia seem to think for herself, or is she more of a pawn of Claudius and/or Polonius?
4. What is the main point of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech?
5. What do you make of the first scene between Hamlet and Ophelia?
6. At the play within a play in Act 3 Scene 2, what are some ways that Hamlet expresses to Ophelia his anger and suspicions about Gertrude and Claudius?
7. How do the King and Queen seem to react to the play, and how does that increase Hamlet's suspicion that his father was murdered?
8. Is Claudius's speech in Act 3 Scene 3 (lines 35-73) a confession of the King's murder?
9. Of what is Hamlet accusing his mother in Act 3 Scene 4?
10. Why does Claudius want Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern to take Hamlet to England, and what is to be done with him there?
11. Does it seem at this point in the plot that Hamlet is mad? What evidence is there that he either is or is not insane?
12. How does Claudius incite Laertes to avenge his father Polonius's death? What unfair advantage will Laertes have?
13. What factors lead to Ophelia's suicide?
14. How, according to Hamlet in his explanation to Horatio, does Hamlet escape being killed in England, and who is killed instead?
15. How, when, and why do the following people die? - Gertrude; Laertes; Claudius; Hamlet.
16. What will be the future role of Horatio? Of Fortinbras?