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Hamlet Act 5

Summary – What happens scene 1?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What happens in scene 2?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Characters –   Who are they?  What is their role in the scene?

Scene 1                                                       Scene 2

Gravedigger                                                 Hamlet

Other Gravedigger                                        Horatio

Hamlet                                                         Laertes

Horatio                                                        Fortinbras

King                                                            King

Queen                                                          Queen

Laertes                                                        Osric

Doctor                                                         Gentleman

 

 

 

 

 

Important Lines – Interpret each quote in your own words and then explain why it is important.

 

1)      Gravedigger:: Give me leave. Here lies the water; good. Here stands the man; good.
If the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he nill he, he goes-
mark you that. But if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not
himself. Argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2)      Hamlet :Let me see. Takes the skull. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him,
Horatio. A fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me
on his back a thousand tunes. And now how abhorred in my imagination
it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kiss'd I know not
how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your
flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one
now, to mock your own grinning? Quite chap- fall'n? Now get you to my
lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she
must come. Make her laugh at that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3)      King: To Laertes. Strengthen your patience in our last night's speech.
We'll put the matter to the present push.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

4)      Hamlet: Why, man, they did make love to this employment!
They are not near my conscience

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5)      Hamlet: But I am very sorry, good Horatio,
That to Laertes I forgot myself,
For by the image of my cause I see
The portraiture of his.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

6)      Hamlet: O, I die, Horatio!
The potent poison quite o'ercrows my spirit.
I cannot live to hear the news from England,
But I do prophesy th' election lights
On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7)      Fortinbras: Let four captains
Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage;
For he was likely, had he been put on,
To have prov'd most royally;

 

 

 

 

 

Further Questions –

 

Scene 1:

1)      What is the purpose of the first conversation the gravediggers have about the woman whose grave they are digging?

 

 

 

 

 

 

2)      What is the purpose of Hamlet’s conversation with the gravedigger?  Why does he talk about Alexander and Yorick?

 

 

 

 

 

 

3)      Whose funeral takes place?

 

 

 

 

 

 

4)      Why does Hamlet fight with Laertes?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scene 2:

1)      What does Hamlet tell Horatio about Rozencrantz and Guildenstern?  How does Hamlet feel about what happened to them?

 

 

 

 

 

 

2)      How does Hamlet feel about his fight with Laertes at the graveyard?

 

 

3)      What do Hamlet and Laertes say to each other before the fight?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4)      How does Laertes feel about his plot with the King towards the end of the duel?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

5)      How does the scene end?  What will happen to Denmark?