Hamlet Act Five

Question 1

Which word (beginning with d) means the closing stages of a plot.

Answer 1

denouement

Question 2

What does denouement mean?

Answer 2

It is a term used to describe the final stages of a plot.

Question 3

‘Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to ___________’

Answer 3

clay

Question 4

‘Alexander returneth to the ____________’

Answer 4

dust

Question 5

‘In the final act, Hamlet accepts his world and we discover a ____________/__________’ (Mack)

Answer 5

different man

Question 6

In the final act, Hamlet accepts his world and we discover a different man’ (________)

Answer 6

Mack

Question 7

What is the significance of Hamlet referring to Caesar and Alexander, and commenting on how they have ‘turned to clay’/returneth to the dust’?

Answer 7

We see Hamlet accepts death and how all living things, irrespective of their greatness, must die.

Question 8

‘lay her in the earth and from her fair and ____________ flesh may violets grow’

Answer 8

unpolluted

Question 9

Who says the following and of whom? ‘lay her in the earth and from her fair and unpolluted flesh may violets grow’

Answer 9

Laertes says this of Ophelia as she is buried in 5.1

Question 10

‘Hamlet is a tragedy without _____________’ (Frye)

Answer 10

catharsis

Question 11

Hamlet is a tragedy without catharsis’ (_______)

Answer 11

Frye

Question 12

Which word (beginning with c) means a release from intense emotions?

Answer 12

catharsis

Question 13

‘I have shot an arrow o’er the house and hurt my ____________’

Answer 13

brother

Question 14

Who says the following: ‘I have shot an arrow o’er the house and hurt my brother’?

Answer 14

Hamlet to Laertes in the final scene. We see a form of reconciliation here, as the tragic prince acknowledges that his anger was misdirected, hurting someone he held dear.

Question 15

‘Give me your ________, sir. I have done you wrong.’

Answer 15

pardon

Question 16

‘Exchange __________ with me, noble Hamlet’

Answer 16

forgiveness

Question 17

Who says: ‘Exchange forgiveness with me, noble Hamlet’?

Answer 17

Laertes in the final scene.

Question 18

‘Bear Hamlet like a __________ to the stage’

Answer 18

soldier

Question 19

What is the significance of Young Fortinbras at the end of the play saying: ‘Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage’?

Answer 19

It shows that, in death, the eponymous character finally gains the heroic identity that he has craved for much of the play.

Question 20

‘I have some rights of ___________ in this kingdom’

Answer 20

memory