Existentialism-Hamlet for Mrs. Mettlach's class
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| Whom does Polonius send to France to spy on Laertes? | show 🗑
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| Where does the ghost appear during the play? | show 🗑
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| show | By pouring poison into his ear
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| Where is the university at which Horatio and Hamlet studied? | show 🗑
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| Whose skull does Hamlet discover in the churchyard? | show 🗑
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| show | Gertrude
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| Who escorts Hamlet on the voyage to England? | show 🗑
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| Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight during Ophelia's funeral? | show 🗑
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| Who survives: Fortinbras, Horatio, Osric, Prince Hamlet, Polonius, Gertrude, Claudius, Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, Ophelia, Laertes, and/or King Hamlet | show 🗑
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| What does Hamlet claim to be able to tell the difference between when the wind is from the south? | show 🗑
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| In whose history of Denmark did Shakespeare find background material for his play? | show 🗑
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| show | she drowns in the river
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| show | Priam and Hecuba's
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| show | he is in love with Ophelia
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| Who is the last character to die in the play? | show 🗑
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| How many characters die during the course of the play? | show 🗑
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| Who speaks the famous "To be, or not to be" soliloquy? | show 🗑
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| show | England
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| Why does Hamlet decide not to kill Claudius after the traveling players' play? | show 🗑
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| Who killed Fortinbras's father? | show 🗑
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| Which character speaks the 1st line of the play? | show 🗑
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| In which year was Hamlet most likely written | show 🗑
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| show | the poisoned sword
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| Which character speaks from beneath the stage toward the end of Act I? | show 🗑
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| show | a group of pirates
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| Who gets the last say in the play? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote "A Primer of Existentialism" ? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote "Richard Corey" ? | show 🗑
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| Who wrote "A Clean Well-Lighted Place" ? | show 🗑
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| show | James Joyce
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| show | John Updike
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| show | Franz Kafka
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| show | William Shakespeare
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| show | the reaction, led by Kierkegaard, against the abstract rationalism of Hegel's philosophy
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| What are the two main groups of existentialism? | show 🗑
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| Who laid the groundwork for Existentialism | show 🗑
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| show | a rejection of the Platonic idea that there is the "ideal" human (humans have no model, blueprint, no ideal essence)
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| humans have free will means | show 🗑
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| we must forge our own values and meaning of existance because | show 🗑
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| humanism | show 🗑
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| how is existentialism different from humanism | show 🗑
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| 6 themes of godly existentialism | show 🗑
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| existence before essence | show 🗑
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| which theme: is ungraspable, we can't understand it; our minds & our intentionality impose form upon the object(material world) distorting reality; "the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know" | show 🗑
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| which theme: growing dependence on reason & science has separated us from God, nature, men, & true self | show 🗑
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| show | anxiety
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| which theme: technology ahs developed the ability to blow the world up; some relies on a loss of reliance on God; are we ever going to get it right? | show 🗑
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| which theme: with the loss of God, nature, people & self the world is left void of meaning, order, purpose, & love; existential crisis is often a test of a preson & the courage she or he maintains | show 🗑
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| show | freedom
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| show | often lonely, anxiety ridden characters who are trying to make sense of their lives
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| show | the world is meaningless; the universe cares nothing for those things we call beautiful or good
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| what is Hamlet's existential crisis? | show 🗑
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| show | Sartre, Camus, & Simone de Beauvoir
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| godly writers (examples) | show 🗑
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| show | meaningless
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| godly existentialists say that | show 🗑
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| ungodly existentialists say that | show 🗑
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| show | Buenos Ayres
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| show | Julius was betrayed
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| Horatio's pagan discussion of the crowing of the cock | show 🗑
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| show | Christmas is such a holy day that they scare away ghosts (ghosts could be evil then) (aka no evil allowed); Jesus was denied 3 times before the cock crowed
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| show | he doesn't believe it (he's too ratioal & known for being rational)
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| show | between 4-6 weeks; Hamlet has to be able to keep up the facade of him being mad but the diplomats are back from Norway, Laerteus is back at school, & Rose-&Guild- have traveled from Wittenberg to Denmark
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| What does spying on his son tell us about Polonius? | show 🗑
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| show | Hamlet just appeared crazed/mad to her
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| show | no because he told his friends "don't worry if I go crazy & play along with it"
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| Why did Rose- & Guild- go to court in Act 2 Scene 2? | show 🗑
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| WHat is Rose- & Guild-'s relation to Hamlet? | show 🗑
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| What is the difference between Polonius using a spy and Cladius using Rose- & Guild-? | show 🗑
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| How does Hamlet behave initially with Rose- & Guild-? | show 🗑
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| show | Hamlet acts more mad/more serious
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| show | man could be great, but to me (Hamlet) we seem worthless
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| show | kid actors are becoming popular
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| What is the significance of Hamlet's referring to Polonius as Jephthah? | show 🗑
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| Why can't the First Player finish the speech in Act 2 Scene 2? | show 🗑
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| show | The Murder of Gonzago
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| What does Hamlet want to add to the play? | show 🗑
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| How does Shakespeare use the player's response to show how different Hamlet's position is? | show 🗑
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| show | he's still not sure if the ghost is real or good
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| show | to see if the ghost is right or not; incriminate Cladius
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| What does Hamlet putting a scene in the play show? | show 🗑
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| Why is the grave digger surprised Ophelia is given a Christian funeral? | show 🗑
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| Act 3 Scene 1: How much have Rose- & Guild- learned from/about Hamlet? | show 🗑
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| What does Polonius give Ophelia to read during the planned meeting between Hamlet and Ophelia (Act 3 Scene1)? | show 🗑
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| show | many people hide their sins (crimes) with religion/pretending to be holy
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| Why does Hamlet say he especially likes Horatio (Act 3 Scene 2)? | show 🗑
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| show | that Hamlet hid Polonius' body & Hamlet hates Cladius
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| show | the people like Hamlet
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| Is Hamlet going to Englad as a prisoner or in the guise of a royal representative? | show 🗑
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| show | to fight with Poland over a small piece of land
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| Where is Hamlet going when he meets the Captain? | show 🗑
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| show | she is in torment & can no longer pretend to be happy
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| show | Hamlet & their intimacy; Hamlet hurt her; Ophelia feels used by Hamlet
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| show | Cladius
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| Who brings Hamlet's letter (of the pirates) to Horatio? | show 🗑
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| What happened to Hamlet on his way to England? | show 🗑
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| What would Laertes do to get revenge? (Act 4 Scene 7) | show 🗑
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| How many tricks and poisons does it take (according to Claudius and Laertes) to kill Hamlet? | show 🗑
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| show | he's afraid Laertes will rage & go violent again
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| show | he's finally thinking of himself as king (finally tieing himself to his country instead of thinking it a prison)
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| What is Hamlet's reaction to the idea of the match? | show 🗑
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| show | Laertes forgives him but says he needs to get revenge still to be a good son
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| How does Claudius die? | show 🗑
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| show | don't know much, they only know what Horatio tells Fortinbras & Fortinbras will tell the people later
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