Hamlet Scenes 4-5

Study Questions:

Scene 4

1. In scene 4, what is Hamlet talking about in lines 13-38?

2. Why doesn’t Horatio want Hamlet to follow the ghost?

Scene 5

1. What does the ghost say to Hamlet—1) about why he walks the night  2) about Claudius and murder  3) about the Queen and the serpent  4) How he died

      2.  Why does Hamlet want to put on an "antic disposition"?




      3.  Why is Act 1 Scene 5 the inciting event of the play?





Summary the entire of Act 1. 


Hamlet Vocabulary:

1)    Countenance

      2)    Perilous

      3)    Sullied

      4)    Apparition

      5)    Portentous

      6)    Calumnious

      7)    Prodigal

      8)    Discourse

     

      9)    Canon

      10) Imminent