Hamlet Question 1 - Remember before exam

1. Form - Verse or prose?

2. Utterance - Who speaks the most? Implications?

3. Soliloquy - Nearest soliloquy? Themes?

4. Contextualise - What has happened before? What is about to happen after?

5. Tone - What tone is created in the extract? Link to theme?

6. Language - Language analysis points? (Main Assessment Objective)

1. Act 1, Scene 2 - Corruption; Self-deprecation

2. Act 1, Scene 5 - Corruption; Inaction

3. Act 2, Scene 2 - Self-deprecation; Inaction

4. Act 3, Scene 1- Self-deprecation; Mortality

5. Act 3, Scene 2 - Inaction; Disease

6. Act 3, Scene 3 - Inaction; Religion

7. Act 4, Scene 4 - Self-deprecation, Inaction; Action

Act 1, Scene 1: Ghost introduced; Denmark established as cold and diseased

Act 1, Scene 2: Claudius's speech on his brother; Hamlet's suicidal thoughts

Act 1, Scene 3: Polonius, Ophelia and Laertes introduced; Misogyny

Act 1, Scene 4: Hamlet criticises the state; He follows the ghost away

Act 1, Scene 5: Ghost reveals the murder; Hamlet accepts the task of revenge; Use of stychomythia and interrogatives; Hamlet plans to put on an antic disposition

Act 2, Scene 1: Polonius tells Reynaldo to spy on Laertes; Polonius goes to tell Claudius about Hamlet's madness that Ophelia has seen

Act 2, Scene 2: Claudius and Gertrude send Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on Hamlet; Polonius thinks he and Claudius should also spy on him; Hamlet figures out why Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were sent; He resolves to use the play to capture Claudius's guilt

Act 3, Scene 1: Debating mortality; Shouting at Ophelia; Claudius begins to see Hamlet as a threat

Act 3, Scene 2: Hamlet and Horatio believe Claudius is guilty as he leaves the play

Act 3, Scene 3: Claudius plans to send Hamlet to England; Polonius offers to spy on Hamlet and Gertrude's conversation; Hamlet goes to kill Claudius but sees he is praying and further delays

Act 3, Scene 4: Hamlet kills Polonius and tells Gertrude the truth; The ghost returns

Act 4, Scene 1: Gertrude tells Claudius that Hamlet killed Polonius

Act 4, Scene 2: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern ask Hamlet what he has done with the body

Act 4, Scene 3: Claudius tells Hamlet that he is being sent to England

Act 4, Scene 4: Hamlet feels shame that he can't carry out revenge after seeing Fortinbras's army

Act 4, Scene 5: Ophelia is mad after her father's death; Laertes wishes to avenge his father; Claudius manipulates him

Act 4, Scene 6: Horatio reads a letter from Hamlet announcing his return

Act 4, Scene 7: Laertes and Claudius plan to poison Hamlet in a duel; Gertrude announces Ophelia has drowned

Act 5, Scene 1: Gravediggers; Ophelia's funeral; Hamlet and Laertes fight over her grave

Act 5, Scene 2: Hamlet and Laertes duel; Gertrude drinks the poisoned drink; Hamlet and Laertes are both cut by the poisoned rapier; Hamlet forces Claudius to drink the poison; Hamlet asks Horatio to tell his story; Fortinbras enters and agrees to give Hamlet a soldier's funeral