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Questions:
1. In act 2, scene 2, talking with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern after he has discovered that they are spying on him, Hamlet comments, What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! .. . And yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? How are the sentiments in the seventh soliloquy similar?
2. What has prompted Hamlet's grim perceptions?
3. What actions does Hamlet see as degrading to the nobility of humans?
4. When Hamlet compares his situation to that of Fortinbras and his troops, what does he think?
5. How does the soliloquy conclude? Do you think that Hamlet will now finally seek revenge?
6. What is the tone in the soliloquy?
7. Why is Hamlet so skeptical about human nature?
8. When you look at the sequence of the soliloquies, do you see any changes in Hamlet?