Part Two of Study Guide for Finals

15. Discuss the meaning of room 101. It represents isolation, because you must be separated from your peers in order to be interrogated. This emphasizes the psychological part of the torture and makes you feel as though you are completely alone in the world which, at that point, you are. It also represents the abuse of power. People are brutally tortured, even when they have maybe done nothing wrong. It also shows just how far the Party can get inside your head, because they know your thoughts and know what your deepest fear is, the thing you could not mentally escape even if you wanted to. It represents dehumanization as a method of control because the people who are taken there are not given baths or food, are beaten and broken until they don’t even resemble people. Supposedly everybody knows what is in room 101, because it is the deepest fear within themselves, but that changes for every person. Room 101 is the place where they completely break you down and then build you up into the loyal party member that you were meant to be, before killing you.

18. Discuss the three movements in the book and summarize what happens in each.
• Part One: this is basically a description of the society. Since it is so different from our own (or anything we have ever known) Orwell had to take a while to set it up, otherwise we would not understand the rest of the book. We learn the ideals of the Party, the principals of Ingsoc, the Party slogans, and all about Big Brother. The first part also introduces us to some important characters, and how Winston views them.
• Part Two: Winston and Julia meet and immediately begin an illicit relationship. It starts with Julia passing Winston a note that says, “I love you” (though they have never spoken before). This is the inciting event of the book. They use their relationship as a form of rebellion against the Party. They continue meeting upstairs in Mr. Charrington’s shop, where they think they are alone. They discuss the Brotherhood, which Winston wants to join (and Julia is indifferent to). Finally, Wisnton gets a message from O’Brien. Julia and Winston go visit O’Brien, where O’Brien tells them about the Brotherhood and Goldstein’s book. Winston then receives said book and reads it, where he finds out that the book says nothing he didn’t know. Winston and Julia are captured in the upstairs room, where they find that a telescreen has been hiding behind a picture. They are taken away.
• Part Three: Winston is in the Ministry of Love, in a cell with many other people and no food. This cell is where he finds out that O’Brien is actually thought police. He is then taken away to be tortured. He is psychologically and physically tortured for a long time, though we don’t know specifics. O’Brien is the chief perpetrator of the torture, and asks Winston questions. He also tells Winston things about the society, and the purpose of the torture, which is to “rehabilitate” wayward individuals. Then Winston is brought to Room 101, where he is asked to face his biggest fear, rats, or completely surrender himself. He does, and betrays Julia as a result. He is then let go, where he lives for a little while at the Chestnut Tree Café. He sees Julia, but there is no feeling anymore, and they both confess that they betrayed each other. At the end, Winston gives up all hope and realizes that he loves Big Brother.

Group Questions From 1984

3. Be able to explain the significance of the following themes:
• The meaning of freedom: freedom is slavery. There are no laws, so technically everybody is free, but nobody is because they don’t know what is allowed and what is not. Big Brother controls everything, without acknowledging that they control anything really. The Proles are both freer and less free than the upper class. They are freer because they aren’t subjected to the same rules as the Party members. However, they are less free because they do not have the ability to think for themselves.
• The responsibility of the individual in society: They have the responsibility to uphold the properties of doublethink and newspeak. Their only responsibility is to do what they are told by the Party, and to be loyal. They are supposed to totally surrender their mind, individuality, and identity to the Party.
• Dehumanization as a method of control: Once you take away a person’s humanity, they are just animals. Animals can’t think for themselves, are easier to control, and easier to kill because they are viewed as inferior. They make everybody the same and give them a pack mentality, removing all connections between people. They take away emotions and the other things that make us inherently human.
• Isolation: The Party removes all connections between people, emotional anyway. They are expected to be connected to the Party and only to the Party. Sex is not against the law, just frowned upon, but is overlooked as long is there is no emotional connection.
• Social class disparity: The Proles have to work 14-hour days at manual labor. The Party members don’t, but they have to swear complete allegiance and are watched more fervently than the Proles. The Party members are the upper class. The Inner Party has even more privileges than the Outer Party. The Proles are not educated in order that they can’t organize an uprising. This disparity is used to keep the system in control and keep the people separate in order to exert more power over them.
• The abuse of power: People are always being watched, all the time, everywhere by the telescreens. The three major states are constantly at war with one another to keep a system of checks and balances and to control the general populace. If you break a rule, you are taken to the Ministry of Love and tortured until you admit to things you didn’t even do, and are killed once you are completely rehabilitated. They bomb their own countries in order to keep the people afraid. They focus their hatred on one enemy at a time to unify the people for the goals of the Party.
4. Define dystopia and apply it to the novel: A dystopia is a place where everything is inherently bad, and is typically totalitarian. The Party claim to have a utopia built on power, but it can’t be a utopia if it is built on social classes and controlling the masses. They are actually striving for a dystopia, because they will not repeat the “mistakes” of past governments. They want power purely for power, and they are no afraid to admit it. This book clearly portrays a dystopia because of the disparity between social classes, the isolation of people from one another, the complete and total control exerted by the government, and the conditions in which people are forced to live.
7. Examine the following symbols:
Big brother: Big Brother does not exist as a person, he is an ideal, representative of everything the Party stands for. He is the figurehead and face of the Party, so the people have something to direct their love, loyalty, and devotion toward.
The party slogans: Freedom is slavery, war is peace, and ignorance is strength. Freedom is slavery: the Party believes that to be an individual is to be a slave because the individual always dies, while the machine lives on. War is peace: they use war as a way to keep their country peaceful and under control because it focuses the hatred outside of themselves, on a common enemy. Ignorance is strength: If you don’t know much, then you don’t know just how much you don’t know. If you are ignorant, you won’t be aware of how helpless you are.
The four ministries: Ministries of peace, love, truth, and plenty. The names are all ironic, because they are the opposite of what they do. Ministry of peace is concerned with war. The ministry of love is concerned with law and order, and they torture people who break the laws. The ministry of truth deals with the media and propaganda, and changing the past. The ministry of plenty is concerned with rationing food which doesn’t need to be rationed. The backwards names are a symbol of the society itself being backwards, and represent doublethink.
The paperweight: it represented Winston and Julia’s relationship, and then it breaks. It is their own little world that they have created (outside the Party’s control), which is infiltrated when the paperweight is broken. It also represents the isolation of people, because Winston relates his world to a paperweight that is surrounded by glass and can’t be touched by the outside.
The golden country: it represents utopia, a place that is the opposite from the society that the Party has created. It is Winston’s escape from the world.
Emmanuel Goldstein: he, like Big Brother, does not exist. He is the common enemy created by the Party to embody everything that is “bad”. The masses are supposed to hate him, and most do, but he is still a beacon of hope to others.
James, Aaronson, Rutherford: they represent the abuse of power. They prove that the Party controls every aspect of life, even the lives of those who have really done nothing wrong. The Party can do anything they want to you because, when they accuse you of something, the masses will usually believe them. They will torture you until you believe them too.
Chestnut Tree Café: this café is a place where everybody who has been “rehabilitated” goes to drink away their thoughts and memories. They go there to live their non-lives as shells of people who are just ghosts of their former beings. They go there to await death. It also represents room 101 and the torture they endured there.
Doublethink: the ability to know that two opposite things are true, and believe only one of them. This also represents the abuse of power because the Party can change the past and the people no choice but to believe it.
Newspeak Dictionary: Newspeak represents the abuse of power and dehumanization and isolation because the Party takes away your ability to express your thoughts and ideas through taking away your vocabulary. If you cannot talk to another person, you cannot connect with them.
Winston’s diary: Winston writes in his diary because he needs an escape from the society in which he has been forced to live. He needs a way to express his feelings against Big Brother and the Party because nobody is allowed to express themselves in this world. This relates back to the themes of isolation and the meaning of freedom. He is not even supposed to be writing in a diary and, as a result, he feels guilty and has to be secretive about it, even though he is just writing down his personal thoughts.
Junkshop: this represents most of the themes. It represents the meaning of freedom because Julia and Winston feel as though they are free there, even though they really aren’t. It represents the responsibility of the individual in society because Mr. Charrington is actually thought police, even though Winston thinks that he is one person who Winston can trust. It represents isolation because Julia and Winston have to sequester themselves off in a random corner room just to be together. It represents social class disparity because of the interactions Winston has with the Prole woman while there. Also because Julia first applies makeup there, which is something that only Prole women do. She also buys food on the black market, food that only the inner party has. It represents abuse of power because Charrington is secretly thought police, and he abuses Winston’s trust.
Songs: this definitely represents social class disparity and isolation. It represents social class disparity because the Proles sing sad songs and songs with lyrics that they don’t really know what they are about. They apply their own meaning to them because they have had hard lives. It also represents isolation in that nobody actually creates music anymore. It is all created on a machine and done so in a way that does not sound like real music. Even then, the songs of the Prole woman and of the thrush bird show that there can still be emotion, beauty, and hope in the world. At the Chestnut Tree Café, the song that plays serves to remind people of what they endured in the Ministry of Love, and makes them realize that they are totally and completely alone.
Proles: THESE represent all of the themes. Meaning of freedom: the Proles could be considered freer than Party members because they are allowed to do basically whatever they want. They could also be considered less free because they don’t really have thoughts of their own, or the ability to think for themselves. Responsibility of the individual in society: the Prole’s responsibility in society is to work and produce more Prole babies. They are expected to be loyal to a fault and not question anything. Dehumanization as a method of control: the Proles are seen as less than people. They are pawns to be used for the Party’s gains, and nothing else. Isolation: the Proles are isolated from the rest of society and from the government. The only people that the Proles aren’t isolated from is each other. Social class disparity: this one should be obvious. The Proles are the under class, who don’t get and education, rarely have enough to eat, and live in poverty. Abuse of power: the Proles are kept unintelligent in order to be controlled more easily. They don’t even know that they could rebel if they wanted to.
10. Describe the setting. It is 1984, we think. The world is in a state of duress and it is a dystopian society. It is a world run by three major superstates, who rule with an iron fist and are interested in nothing but power. Everything is dirty and everything is rationed even though it doesn’t have to be. Winston’s story takes place in Oceania, which used to be England (and a larger chunk of Europe). There are telescreens and posters of Big Brother everywhere, always watching you. There is no privacy anywhere.

1. Rats were all around Room 101 and that's what cures him. They cure him because he tells them to go after Julia and leave him alone.

1. The old Chessnut Tree.

2. He gets paid for not working.

3. They didn't protect or love one another anymore.

4. Now he watches the telescreen, and is writing 2+2=5, so he's following Big Brother.

5. Winston tells how he really feels about O'Brian and he loves him. Now he wants to commit suicde.

Chapter 4

1. Now, Winston is being fed, he is getting to take baths, and he's been moved to a new room where hei s being tourchered more. He has started exercising, writing, and dreams about both Julia and his mother. He wrote the three things they taught him which are, "Freedom is Slavery" Two and Two Make Five" and "God is Power."

2. He shows it by screaming Julia's name out several times.

3. Winston tells O'Brian that he hates Big Brother and will no longer believe in him.

Book 3 Chapter 3

1. The three stages that Winston has to follow are; learning, understanding, and acceptance. He is about to enter understanding.

2. O'Brian wrote Goldstein's book, and the descriptions he wrote in the book were true the rest was nonsense.

3. No matter what people do they can never overthrow the Party.

4. The phrase "Freedom is Slavery" means that human beings are always defeated there is no way of ever escaping it. But if you are a Party member, you will always have someway of getting out.

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7. Winston thinks that O'Brian is telling that the way the Party is taking control over people's mind is a world of happiness and joy is distroying everybody, a world of stupididy and dumbness people could survive.

8. Winston is noticing what everybody would be feeling if there were no more women, children or friends around anymore. People wouldn't even want to be alive anymore.

9. He can say that he still loves Julia and won't let anything ever happen the her.

10.Winston feels that O'Brian is a liar and he will distory the world and make it painful for everyone.

11. How will they shoot me?

Book 3 Chapter 2

1. Winston is getting beat up.

2. O'Brian is trying to teach Winston that if you keep the secret of your group or not, you are still going to get caught and blamed for it.

3. O'Brian is saying that if your apart of the group and you get into any kind of trouble, that you will be bailed out. Another section of the story when O'Brian was talking to both Julia and Winston he was lying to them when he told them that the group wouldn't help you out if you were in trouble.

4. Winston is only seeing one thing and that is the number four. Its making him go crazy because O'Brian it listening for another number.

5. Winston asked O'Brian what has he done with Julia? O'Brian tells Winston stuff like you don't need her, your in the club now.

Questions 1-5

1. Winston is in jail. He's not treated very badly, he is mostly tourchering himself, because he doesn't want to get into anymore trouble.

2. O'Brien is in jail because he disobeyed The Brotherhood.

3. The Starving man dropped a piece of bread and the Chinless man wanted to go after it, but he decided not to with a guard coming back and forth.

4. "Room 101" is the worst place a person could go, you would much rather see your family die.

5. O'Brian has been in the prison before because he was caught in the past. But now he's there just faking that he is in trouble.

14. One of the ways a group falls from power is not having many members to make up a diction if one of the lower class members are able to come and join their party.
15. All of the Parties have a war to decide who is in power. What the middle and lower class have to team up and try to fight the first class.
16. A person's class is determind by what the ratings of the members are, and if the class is really sticking to what they are supposed to do.
17. Doublethink is when they have their two minute hate period, its saying that at the same time the people think the hate this man, but if someone was able to get out of being brain washed, they would figure out that this whole thing is being caused by the Government and they'd turn their back on him.
18. If the people could go back in the past like Winston, they could see that life before all this was a lot happier.

The 4 Questions

1. The clock took control over the people just like the Government, but its just another way that the Government can spy on people when people are just thinking that's what time it is.
2. The song is supposed to mean sadness, but to Julia it meant a world of happiness. The dream of The brotherhood could either mean a new begenning or a new ending of hapiness or sadness.
3. The bells symbolize about the feelings.
4. The only thing that was even close to a law back then was people couldn't be like Winston who could think of the past and not be controled by the Government.

Most of Questions 9-18 Part 2

9. War Is Peace because no war can defeat all.
10. War Is Peace,
11. The telescreens being a way to spy on people, now a days there is the internet where anyone could get spied on at antytime.
12. The telescreen came out so people were able to talk to one another. In the story people weren't really aloud to talk, but the times the did talk it was face to face.
13. The Government had enerybody brain washed and they would make people think this is what you got to do.
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Study Questions for Books 1&2

1. O'Brian has things like a servent, and knows how to turn off the telescreen.
2. He ask Julia and Winston questions like, will you commit suicide? Would you hurt other people? Would you be willing to break up after you've been together for so long?
3. No body knows how many members there are, they'll have three to four contacts that will change, they will recieve orders from O'Brian, and they will have to comunicate through his servant.
4.First Wiston will have to take his brief case to work and he will get a misprinted word and he asked for a repeat. Then the next day when he is in the street someone will tell him, "You dropped your brief case." Then once Wiston gets it he will have two weeks to return it.
1. He's explaining how the Government controling everyone and also explains why the other countries are always at war.
2. The three classes are The High, The Middle, and The Low.
3. When a war comes along, The Middle Class and The Lower Class team up and fight together. Now the three classes are fighting because the Government gives them an enemy.
4. Its a way to control them, and it gives them a spacific enemy so they don't hate the Government.

Question For Book 2 Chapters 3&4

1.Julia tells Winston to meet her in the woods and this is when they are in the Victory Square.
2.Her job is to write down a part of something she read and put it into her own words.
3.Julia is the type of girl who doesn't like to break into other people's business.
4.She thinks that The Party is wrong the way they tourment other people, but so she doesn't get hurt or killed she just goes along with whatever Winston says.
5.Winston first spots Julia as his first love, but when they start doing more he starts to feel like they are not right for one another.
6.The Party thinks that if you enjoy having sex with that person, that is not right, you have to hate that person and know that this is for work not fun.
7.When they are in the forest, Winston hears something and at first he thinks that Julia and him are going to be killed, but when he finds that its birds he likes the music.
8.Wiston's covers his face so he doesn't seem them, and Julia screams and acts like a maniac around them.
9.That there is happiness flowing in the air, this is not be a day of war.
10.It doesn't have any use in The Party's generation.
When Syme vanished, Winston reported it to the sex comity.
11.They give out pamlets, they have meetings, processions, military parades, and lectures.
12.One of them is old and one of them is young.
13.Julia is practical which Winston is not. Julia lives in parts of the past, where Winston is all about the future. Winston has a more opened mind about how to express himself, unlike Julia who is all closed and not wanting to share her thoughts or feelings. Freedom is the same for both Julia and Winston because when they are out in the forest together they aren't having anyone spying on them or anything like that.

Book 2 Chapter 1 & Book 2 Chapter 2

1. He first starts getting a whole bunch thoughts in his head like; is this going to be a suicide? A homicide? Or is something even worse then death, going to happen?
2. Wiston starts to get the feeling of love.
3. When Wiston and Julia are walking in the woods where they are all alone.
4. The first time Julius and Wiston spoke to one another was when they were at the canteen, lifefly, between mouthfuls of food.
5. They are in Town Square where they are taking a complicated note.

1. Winston is still unsure that they are not totally alone yet. Another reason could be that, he hasn't been around a woman for a long time, so he might be thinking, "What if i mess up and make her mad.
2. Julia had a piece of chocolate, that she gave to Winston, which made them both very happy.
3. She is just like Winston, she feels uncomfterble to go because she feels it is not her place to be.
4. While they are in the forest, there is a bird singing and they don't know it.
5. No one but the bird can hear it.
6. He is saying that he loves her and wants her to be his new lover.

Hamlet Act 5 Study Questions

1. The gravediggers were there for comic relief and to appeal to the pheasents in the crowd. They fit into the play because they say things that are whitty and wise.
2. Hamlet states that he is king or “Hamlet the Dane.” When you die, everyone is the same so what is the point of committing suicide. Hamlet is sad that Yoric is dead, but he respected him as well as his father.
3. Hamlet is 30 years old. The gravedigger told us, “I have been sexton here, man and boy, thirty years.”
4. Hamlet thinks and plans before he does something about Cladius but Lartes just reacts when it pops into his mind. It adds excitement and shows how Hamlet and Lartes are somewhat alike.
5. Hamlet changed because of the letter he wrote to kill Rosencratz and Guildenstern, he will kill people to protect his country, Denmark.
6. First he states that Claudius killed his dad, then he made his mother mad when he called her a hoar, and when Claudius took the king role away from Hamlet.
7. The concerns are for Hamlets safety, but Hamlet says if it is Gods he will die.
8. Because Hamlet says, “There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow,” and that means if Hamlet gets stabbed and dies, it is God’s decision if he lies or dies.
9. He still resents Hamlet because of his loss of honor when Hamlet killed his father. Laretes haunts for his father’s death.
10. All of them have different feelings but they think about themselves.
11. Horatio and Fortinbras are the winners because they didn’t get killed.

Act IV Study Questions

Scene 1
1. Gertrude tells him, right away.
2. His main concern is that Hamlet is coming after him next, so he wants to get rid of Hamlet. He decides to turn to his "wisest friends" to tell them what happened so he doesn't get blamed. He hopes this event will not come back to bite him in the butt.
3. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, as usual.

Scene 2
1. He tells them that the body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. He says this to emphasize that Claudius is not the rightful king and that the king isn't just a person.
2. Claudius.

Scene 3
1. He's saying it would be dangerous to confine him because the people of the kingdom like Hamlet. He's worried that if he punishes Hamlet, the people will judge Claudius rather than Hamlet even though Hamlet murdered somebody.
2. He talks more about where Polonius is in death, rather than where his physical body is. He says Polonius is at supper being eaten (by worms) and that he's in Heaven. He is trying to emphasize the idea that everyone is equal in death regardless of whether they were a king or a beggar in life.
3. Claudius wants the ruler of England to kill Hamlet. No, they don't know it.

Scene 4
1. He wants to let Claudius know that the Norwegian army is there, and that they want free passage as promised before.
2. He learns they're going to Poland to fight for a small piece of worthless land.
3. Fortinbras is a man of action, and he gets things done. Hamlet, on the other hand, is a coward and doesn't act on any of his thoughts. Fortinbras has this idea of honor, and he will fulfill it no matter what. Hamlet is afraid to act on any of his thoughts and just sits there thinking them all day even if he has a really good reason to act on them.

Scene 5
1. The queen thinks that Ophelia just wants something done. The queen doesn’t think that it is very important, but after Claudius says that something bad might happen, and Ophelia will start spreading dangerous roomers and start poisoning minds.
2. Ophelia is so upset that the king asks Horaito to watch her very carefully and make sure that she does nothing to hurt herself. I think he’s right, that with a situation like this when someone is acting not normal that don’t even really see the picture that is going on in their mind.
3. Lareities comes back to see who killed his father, and then to seek revenge on the person who committed the crime.
4. The king has to find someway to calm Lareties down, so that the king doesn’t get murdered, or loose his job. The king also has to find a way for the mob not to want Laraties as their king.
5. The king calms Laraties down by telling him to get a group of people together, bring them to him, and they’ll decide if he’s innocent or not. Then if he is innocent he will help Larties find who really killed his father, but if he is guilty, Larties will kill the king and get everything that belongs to him.
Scene 6.
1. The ship captured by pirates.
2. Hamlet made a deal with the pirates, which got him back to Denmark.
3. The sailors are going to take Horitao to Hamlet.
Scene 7
1. The queen loves Hamlet and the king loves the queen, so he doesn’t want to hurt either.
2. Because the people love him and his mom loves him.
3. Hamlet wrote him a letter.

Talking About The Recent Hamlet Characters

It is a dull revenge because he is not acting on his reasons. Some men are worth nothing, if all they do is eat and sleep, you are no more then an animal. True gods did not make us to be worthless. He is thinking too much, that is what’s making him go crazy, he is not taking action on his own thoughts. Hamlet is feeling like a coward, as he looks down at all of his actions. Hamlet sees the massive army that Foresenbras is leading with strength, ambition, and courage. Foresenbras is trying to risk his life, for some worthless land, that might not even be of any use to him. Hamlet needs to take action on his father’s murder, his mother’s honor, and try to save the rest of his kingdom.

Hamlet Scene IV

1. Scold Hamlet for being so rude and blunt.

2. Polonius was the rat and Hamlet will bet a "Ducat" that he is not dead because he stabbed him.

3. Hamlet is not killing Polonius is not as bad as Gertrude sleeping with Claudius.

4. Gertrude doesn't think Hamlet should be saying such mean and bitter comments.

5. King Hamlet- Look how beautiful my father is. Claudius- Mildew ear.

6. His father was a good man and Claudius is a horrible person.

7. The bed that his mother lies in is filthy and wrong. Hamlet is also talking about "His mother's" love life.

8. The ghost tells him to leave his mother alone and reminds Hamlet of his purpose and not to yell at his mother.

9. Get into the habit of saying, "No to Claudius," and then it will become easier. No, they do not reflect madness but discuss with his mother about sleeping with his uncle.

10. In scene I many people saw the ghost.

Act 3 Questions

Act 3
Scene 1:

1. What do Rosencrantz and Guildenstern report to Polonius?
He says that Hamlet is going crazy and that there will be a play taking place later that night.


2. How does Claudius react when Polonius says, "…With devotion's visage, and pious action we do sugar o'er/ the devil himself"?
He admits that he has done something wrongdoing. Claudis agrees with him and they are going to spy on Hamlet to see if he is crazy.

3. What plan do Polonius, Claudius and Ophelia now put into action?
They are going to spy on Hamlet while Ophelia talks to him, to see if he is in love with her.


4. What is the nature of Hamlet's soliloquy, lines 57-91?
He wants to commit suicide but is too afraid about the unknown of death.

5. What is Hamlet's main argument against suicide?
Hamlet doesn’t know what happens after death.


6. Why does Hamlet treat Ophelia as cruelly as he does? What has changed him?
Hamlet treats her cruelly because he wants her out of his life for her own protection. He has realized that his life is not safe for her.

7. What thinly veiled threat to Claudius does Hamlet voice, after he becomes of his hidden presence? (Lines 148-150)
He threatens Claudius’s life.
8. At the end of this scene, what does the King decide to do with Hamlet?
He decides to send him to England to collect unpaid tribute.
To England for unpaid tribute.





Scene 2:
9. What qualities in Horatio cause Hamlet to enlist his assistance?
He’s well balanced and trustworthy.

10. What does Hamlet ask Horatio to do?
To keep an eye on Claudius to see what he is up to.

11. Summarize what happens in the play-within-a-play.
The king ask the queen to leave him alone while he takes a nap, then nephew poured poison into the king’s ear, and then the queen and nephew or uncle gets married.
12. Why, in line 233, does Hamlet refer to the play-within-a-play as "The Mouse-trap"?
Hamlet is using the play to trap Claudius.

13. What is the King's reaction to the play?
He’s suspicious because he knows that Hamlet has caught him.

14. In lines 354-363, to what object does Hamlet compare himself? Why?
He is comparing himself to a recorder because, he said, “You are not going to make me talk no matter what you do.” Hamlet knows that the two guards are spying on him, and he’s not going to let them get away with it.

15. As Hamlet goes to his mother at the end of this scene, what does he admonish himself to do?
He is going to talk badly to her, but he isn’t going to kill her, he is going to kill King Claudius.

All Of The Hamlet Work

Themes:

• Revenge: Hamlet is trying to get revenge on Claudius by showing the play about what he did to Old Hamlet. This is meant to not only embarrass him, but show everyone what he's done, and let Claudius know that Hamlet is aware of his secret.
  
• Death: He discusses death during the garden metaphor. He's suggesting that, though the sun can make a garden beautiful, it can also cause death and decay.
  
• Humanity: Hamlet gives a monologue about humanity, talking about how people are brilliant and graceful and even god-like, but really it's meaningless.
• Corruption or living in an unjust world: Hamlet says people are liars, "to be an honest man is to be 1 in 10,000". He discusses Denmark as a prison, and so is the world. He's saying that there's a lot of bad things in the world, and it's impossible to escape them. He talks about the garden, and uses the idea that the sun can breed good things and bad things.
  

Motifs:

• Prostitution: Fortune is a prostitute because she uses men to do her will. Polonius is more of a pimp because he sells his family for his own desires. For example, he's trying to orchestrate the marriage of Ophelia and Hamlet so he can be closer to the throne.This can fit the theme of revenge, depending on how the prostitution is used, or it can fit the theme of corruption. It could also fit the theme of humanity, because prostitution displays people as objects rather than people.
  
• Spying: The king and queen are spying on Hamlet, so they can find out what's really wrong with him. Polonius is spying on Laertes in France, and on Hamlet using Ophelia. Hamlet is spying on everybody by acting mad, because nobody is afraid to let their true colors show in front of a crazy person. This can fit the themes of revenge and corruption.
  
• Garden: Hamlet is the sun (son), which he has discussed can make things beautiful or make them decay. Claudius is the serpent, which is an allusion to Satan tempting Eve in Eden. Old King Hamlet is the sun god, giving birth to all things beautiful. Polonius is a weed, choking out everything good, and taking over the garden ruthlessly. Ophelia, however, is supposed to be a flower. She is good, pure, beautiful, and innocent.
• Dreams: Heroes and kings are the shadow of the lower class, just as dreams are a shadow of reality. This shows that Kings are just supposed to be a tool of the people.
  

1. He has sent for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
2. He wants to use their old friendship so they can get close to Hamlet and find out what's making him mad.
3. Old Norway didn't know what Fortinbras was doing. He stopped Fortinbras and gave him 3000 crowns and an army to attack Poland instead of Denmark.
4. To allow Fortinbras's army safe passage through Denmark on his way to Poland.
5. His speech is not brief, and he always talks a lot. He's being played as a sort of fool. He talks to make himself sound smarter, but actually sounds dumber.
6. That Ophelia should go to Hamlet when Hamlet is walking, while Claudius and Polonius spy on them to see how Hamlet acts toward her.
7. He's prostituting Ophelia for his own reason. He wants her to marry Hamlet so he can become closer to the throne.
8. He says that madness gets the point across where sanity wouldn't do as well.
9. He feels trapped there because of his uncle. He can't really take joy in anything because he's a pessimistic baby who views the whole world as a prison.
10. He says he's depressed because he can't take joy in anything.
11. There's been an uprising of a certain type of theatre that the players are not part of, so they're forced to go on the road.
12. He asks them why they were sent for, which lets them know that he's aware they aren't there of their own volition.
13. Jephtha is a man in the Bible who kills his daughter for political power, which is what Polonius is metaphorically doing with Ophelia.
14. He is like Pyrrhus because they are both vengeful because their fathers were murdered, they're both wearing black, they both use deceit and trickery to get back at their fathers' murderers, and they both think Fortune is a strumpet. They are unalike because Hamlet is vengeful toward his uncle whereas Pyrrhus is vengeful toward the Trojan king, Pyrrhus is in a war while Hamlet it not, and Pyrrhus is taking action while Hamlet is just talking.
15. Does he know, "The Murder of Gonzago", and can Hamlet put some extra lines in there.
16. He says it because he's comparing himself to the players, and how they're acting when he can't even though he loves it so much. He's referring back to the "shadows of the beggars" speech he made before.
17. To spy on Claudius using the play by seeing what his reaction is.
18. He feels this way because nobody will believe Claudius is guilty unless there's evidence.
19. Polonius spies on Laertes with the help of Reynaldo, Polonius and Claudius spy on Hamlet using Ophelia, Hamlet is spying on Claudius using the actors, and the king and queen spy on Hamlet using Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
20. Despondent, he talks a lot but he doesn't do anything about it, makes excuses about why he won't take action, clever and smart, morbid, indecisive, passionate about acting, angry, insulting to Polonius/Claudius/Gertrude/Ophelia (sort of rude), jealous, obsessive, and antisocial.

1. In the beginning of act two, Polonius is trying to get Reynaldo to spy on Laertes for him.

2. He does this because he has a good idea of what Laertes is doing in France, so he tells Reynaldo to get the real story. He disapproves of Laertes's activities.

3. The plan is to have Reynaldo spread lies about Laertes (but no so much as to dishonor him) and gauge the reactions he gets. By this method, they hope to find out what is true and what is not so Polonius knows exactly what Laertes is up to in France.

4. This tells us that Polonius is very selfish. He wants to spy on his own son and spread lies about him, potentially ruining his reputation, but only so much as it does not reflect poorly on the family. Polonius cares more about being embarrassed himself than about his children. However, it does reveal that Polonius is quite cunning, which could be a foreshadow.

5. Reynaldo doesn't really want to do it, and he wants to know why he has to. Reynaldo seems almost bored into compliance, however, because he's giving two and three word answers to Polonius. It seems as though he'll do what Polonius says just to get him to shut up.

6. She says he showed up in her bedroom with no hat, an unbuttoned shirt, dirty stockings that were undone and down around his ankles. He was pale and his knees were knocking together. He looked as if he’d just come back from hell. He grabbed her by the wrist and held on, then backed away and just stared at her, and stayed like that for a while. Then he shook her, nodded, and sighed deeply. He let her go and stared at her as he walked out.

7. Polonius thinks Hamlet is love-crazy because Ophelia did what she was told and sent back Hamlet's letters and refused to see him.

1. Laertes tells Ophelia to not get caught up in Hamlet's confessions of love because Hamlet is using Ophelia and if she gives in to him she will be ruined and bring shame on herself and her family.

2. This fits the concept of the decaying garden because it's comparing women to the garden and the canker to sex. Sex means being ruined. By calling the women "infants" it implies that they are innocent. After the canker comes to the flowers, or after the women lose their virginity, they are ruined forever.

3. She tells him that she knows what he does in France, so he should quit preaching. She means that he needs to quit being a hypocrite and take his own advice, because he's fooling around with women himself.

4. Keep your thoughts to yourself and don't share them because it will turn out badly. Keep your judgments to yourself but listen to what others think. Don't borrow money or lend money. Figure out who your real friends are and keep them. To thine own self be true.

5. "Think yourself a baby that you have ta'en these tender for true pay...you'll tender me a fool." Polonius is trying to say that Ophelia is being naive, as if she were a child, because she believes Hamlet's love is pure and true, when Polonius believes it is not.

6. "As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood, disasters in the sun" What is trying to be said in this metaphor is that catastrophe will come soon. This is a foreshadow to the fall of Denmark, which represents the fall of mankind. Fire could represent a war, while blood implies that the war will be extremely bloody and gory.

7. He commands her to stop seeing Hamlet.

8. He is speaking mostly about the reputation of the castle and of Denmark. He says the people in the castle are known for partying and drinking and that it is lessening the value of their achievements because all people see is their bad reputation.

9. Horatio believes the ghost may not be peaceful and if Hamlet follows him the ghost will work his way into Hamlet's head and eventually convince him to commit suicide.

10. He tells them to stay where they are and not follow him to see the ghost.

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Hamlet 1.2

1. He is all in black. He is still mourning the loss of his father, yet shows up at his mother's wedding (which he does not approve of).
2. One reason is that it was considered incest for him to marry his brother's wife. Another is that his brother has barely been dead for a month when they get married.
3. He asks to go back to France.
4. He is insulting Claudius for marrying Gertrude. He's saying that Claudius is his relative twice because he's his uncle and his step-father, but 'less than kind' means that he doesn't exactly treat him like they're that close.
5. He is in the spotlight of Denmark because he's the prince. He's also the 'son' because of Claudius's marriage to Gertrude.
6. His mom got married only about a month after his father's death, and to his uncle no less.
7. He's upset. He's saying that everything isn't quite what it seems. He's saying that he's dressed like he's mourning and to everyone else it looks like he's upset about his father's funeral, but he's really mourning his mother's marriage. He's also saying that his outward appearance matches his feelings.
8. You could keep the food from the funeral cold long enough to serve it at the wedding because they are so close together.
9. That there is the ghost of his dead father roaming around in armor.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Hamlet 1.1

1. The first scene sets up a mystery. We see the ghost, he's dressed in armor, but he won't speak to anybody. We are intrigued and want to keep reading because we want to know what happens.

2. We understand that the ghost is actually the dead king, that he's dressed in armor, he will not speak, and we are given some of the backstory such as the deaths of King Hamlet and Fortinbras, and the state their countries are in now.

3. The ghost reappears yet again. Once the guards learn it will not speak to them, one of them tries to get the ghost to stay by hitting it. The ghost, of course, immediately leaves. The guards then wonder what the ghost is trying to tell them, and decide to bring the story to Hamlet to see if the ghost will speak to him instead. The reader wants to see this meeting with Hamlet.

4. The scene has a mood of uncertainty or doubt. The guards are arguing amongst themselves about whether they actually saw a ghost, or if this is even possible. When it is made clear to them that there is an apparition and they see it is their king dressed in armor, they cannot figure out why this would be the case. They have doubts throughout the whole scene.

5. They are apprehensive because they are confused. The ghost keeps disappearing and reappearing, and they're having arguments about whether what they saw was really a ghost or not. The second reason is that the ghost is the ghost of their king, and he's dressed in armor. They realize that this can be nothing but a warning.

6. Horatio optimistically says that the king might have come back to tell them of treasures and how to get them. His more grim (and more correct) prediction is that the king has come to warn them, like an omen.

7. Horatio, Marcellus, Barnardo, Francisco, King's Ghost, Old Fortinbras is mentioned.

8. He states that King Hamlet was a great enemy of King Fortinbras, and they had a battle.

9. He is the son of Old Fortinbras of Norway, and is in much the same situation as Hamlet. His father has died and his uncle has taken over the throne.

10. He said corpses rose out of their graves speaking a language nobody could understand and they were walking the streets of Rome. He also says that stars fell from the sky leaving nothing but blood in their wakes, and that the moon was almost completely eclipsed.

11. Horatio at first does not believe there is a ghost at all. After it becomes clear to him that it's true, he consistently provides us with a different point of view from the others. He's also a scholar, so the reader is supposed to trust his opinion about what the ghost means and why it's there, as opposed to the other characters who are just awe stricken. He also provides a huge part of the backstory.

12. Horatio is present in this scene firstly to create conflict. He is always disagreeing with the other guards or presenting us with a different point of view. Also, because he's a scholar, Horatio is present to show us the history behind the events that are happening now and to set up the backstory, because it was thought back then that only intellectuals could speak with ghosts.

13. We learn that Denmark and Norway are sort of in a feud because Old Hamlet killed Old Fortinbras and took his land out of greed.

Vocab 1/21/11

1) Paradox noun- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
Last night at the assembly, the mayor gave a paradox to his whole council about what’s going to happen to their water lines.

2) Sovereign noun- a monarch; a king, queen, or other supreme ruler.
The whole state of Califorina was surprised when a sovereign came and took over the whole state.

3) Commission noun- the act of committing or giving in charge.
The girl was sentenced, to give a commission at a mental hospital after beating one of their patients.

4) Resolution noun- a resolve or determination: to make a firm resolution to do something.
Kathy gave a resolution after she stole her friends phone.

5) Malefaction noun- an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
Amber was convicted a malefaction after she repeatidly stabbed her boyfriend.

6) Firmament noun- the vault of heaven; sky.
Ashley had a firmament, when she though she had saw her grandma is the sky.

7) Tedious adjective- marked by tedium; long and tiresome: tedious tasks; a tedious journey.
April had a tedious journey while she was traveling through Africa.

8) Pestilent adjective- injurious to peace, morals, etc.; pernicious.
Sally had a pestilent feeling about church on Sunday.

9) Pious adjective- having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for god or an earnest wish to fulfill religious obligations.
Barbra was showing Pious after church.

10) Promontory noun- a high point of land or rock projecting into the sea or other water beyond the line of coast; a headland.
Angela noticed a lot of promontory when she hiking up those sharp pointy rocks at Yakutania Point.

15. Madness got the point across where sanity wouldn't.

16. Denmark is a bad place to be, its pratically a prison, and that's where most people try to seek death and revenge.

17. Hamlet is all crazy because he is heart brooken, and he has a enemy that won't let Hamlet be with his daughter.

18. Rosencarntz and Guildenstern go to spy on Hamlet to find out of he is really in love with Ophila, so they start asking him questions like, "What are you up to?" but Hamlet knew that they were just trying to fool him.

19. Hamlet thinks that Polionius is gonna come tell him about the players that are coming.

20. Japhiah sacrificed his daughter for polotics and they are comparing Polonis to Japhiah.

21. He like Prias because he is trying to seek revenge for his father, Hamlet would of killed him right away but Prias would of waited for a second.

Hamlet Act 2 Scene 2

1. Fishmonger slay for pimp.

2. It to be one man picked out of ten thousand meaning the word is full of liars.

3. The sun can be good or bad.

4. Hamlet is the sun which in this case, is saying he is good.

5. Hamlet is slandering Polonius.

6. You can't relay on fortune, she will go to whoever gives her the most money.

7. Denmark is a prison, which makes it a metaphor.

8. We can not be a hero unless mankind supports it.

9. His friends are here to spy on him.

10. There are many great things about mankind, Hamlet can only see dust.

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Vocabulary for Hamlet

Apparition, noun- a supernatural appearance of a person or thing, esp. a ghost; a specter or phantom; wraith: a ghostly apparition at midnight.
The apparition appeared after I heard noises.

Calumnious, adjective- of, involving, or using calumny; slanderous; defamatory.
The police officer, made a calumnious statement to the President of the United States.

Canon, noun- an ecclesiastical rule or law enacted by a council or other competent authority and, in the Roman Catholic Church, approved by the pope.
The pope made a canon for the world.

Countenance, noun- appearance, esp. the look or expression of the face: a sad countenance.
The girl was countenance when she found out that she couldn’t run for class President.

Discourse, noun- communication of thought by words; talk; conversation: earnest and intelligent discourse.
There was a heated discourse laying on my desk when I got to work.

Imminent, adjective- likely to occur at any moment; impending: Her death is imminent.
The girl felt imminently surprised when she found out that she was pregnant.

Perilous, adjective- involving or full of grave risk or peril; hazardous; dangerous: a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat.
For three days, Anchorage felt perilous when no body could catch the armed robber.

Portentous, adjective- of the nature of a portent; momentous.
It felt like the superintend was giving a portentous speech to the children.

Prodigal, adjective- wastefully or recklessly extravagant: prodigal expenditure.
For thirteen years, Anchorage has been fighting for a prodigal recycling system.

Sullied, verb- to soil, stain, or tarnish.
The guy deliberately, sullied the girl’s reputation.

Act 1 Scene 1 Study Questions

1. People start getting interested, because the first sighting is a ghost.
2. Act 1 Scene 1 describes the characters and the setting, along with the feud with of the two kings.
3. The guards go looking for Hamlet.
4. The guards are frighten in the middle of winter when a ghost appears.
5. The ghost is surrounding them and they are just about to go into war.
6. Horatio says that the ghost is a sign, telling the kingdom that something bad is coming, or that there may be a treasure to be found.
7. Ghost, Horatio, Francisco, Barnado, and Marcellus.
8. Horatio had on the same armor when he fought the king of Norway.
9. Frotinbras the prince of Norway, came and seeked revenge for his dead father.
10. The dead had all rosed from their graves and walked wailing the streets of Rome.
11. He is a scholar and Marcellus and Barnardo are the guards.
12. They got him to come because only scholars could speak to ghost.
13. The king of Denmark, killed the king of Norway.