Hamlet Vocab Scenes 5-8a

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  1. 2. "There you are, uncle, smiling ____!" Hamlet calls King Claudius an EVIL GUY.
  2. 6. "What a ____ and peasant slave am I," Hamlet says,feeling guilty for being a DISHONEST PERSON to his friends.
  3. 10. "Your uncle ___ close and in my ear did pour a cursed poison!" the ghost explains that King Claudius SNUCK up on him and poured poison in his ear.
  4. 12. "Let thy soul ____ nothing against thy mother," the ghost tells Hamlet to not MAKE ANYTHING HAPPEN against his mom; she's innocent.
  5. 13. "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the ____ of the king!" Hamlet is going to try to spark the king's SENSE OF RIGHT AND WRONG by staging a play.
  6. 14. Hamlet wonders if it's better to suffer the problems of the world, or to "take ____ against a sea of troubles" to fight back at problems with metaphorical WEAPONS.
  7. 16. "____ for thy love?" Polonius thinks maybe Hamlet has been driven INSANE because he loves Ophelia.
  8. 17. "Brevity is the soul of ___" Polonius tells the King and Queen that not talking much makes people sound INTELLIGENT and FUNNY
  9. 18. "We have sent for Hamlet that as if by accident he may ____ Ophelia" the King explains that he and Polonius have made it so Hamlet will UNEXPECTEDLY RUN INTO Ophelia
  10. 19. When Hamlet asks how Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are doing, they reply "As the _____ children of the earth", meaning they are NOT GOOD OR BAD.
  11. 22. "____ Ophelia, What's the matter?" Polonius asks Ophelia WHAT'S UP?
  12. 24. "They are welcome, but what ___ are they?" Hamlet asks about the ACTORS that have shown up at the castle.
  13. 25. "Be you and I behind an ___ to mark the encounter" Polonius plans to hide behind a TAPESTRY or FABRIC WALL HANGING to spy while Ophelia talks to Hamlet
  14. 26. "I most ____ take my leave of you" Polonius says, bowing down LOW, showing that Hamlet is more IMPORTANT than him.
  15. 27. "I ___ you both that you rest here in our castle some little time" King Claudius ASKS Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to come stay.
Down
  1. 1. "Come, deal ____ with me" Hamlet says, telling his friends to be FAIR and honest and DO WHAT'S RIGHT
  2. 3. "So by your companies you may glean what ____ him" King Claudius wants Rosencrants an Guildenstern to find out what CAUSES HAMLET'S SUFFERING
  3. 4. "My uncle-father and mother are ____" Hamlet says, explaining that he has been TRICKING his uncle and mother.
  4. 5. "Let us ____, My Lord!" Polonius tells the King it's time to GO AWAY to hide and spy.
  5. 7. "Sleeping in my orchard upon my ___ hour," the ghost tells Hamlet where he was when he was murdered; nice and PROTECTED AGAINST ATTACK
  6. 8. "I do think I have found the very cause of Hamlet's ___" Polonius tells the King and Queen that he knows what drove Hamlet INSANE.
  7. 9. "I'll wipe away all ___ records and thy commandment alone shall live within my brain," Hamlet promises the ghost, saying he's going to forget anything UNIMPORTANT and focus on revenge
  8. 11. "Remoreseless, ____, Kindless villain!" Hamlet calls the king GUILTY OF BETRAYAL (among other insults)
  9. 15. "These ____ old fools," Hamlet says, calling Polonius BORING.
  10. 16. "I have of late lost all my ____," Hamlet says, explaining that he's so depressed he has lost his JOY and not LAUGHED lately.
  11. 20. "With a ___ madness" Guildenstern seems to know that Hamlet's madness is a TRICK
  12. 21. "I did ___ his letters and deny his visits as you did command." Opehlia tells her father she SENT AWAY Hamlet's letters
  13. 23. "I ___ you were so honest a man" Hamlet WISHES Polonius were honest.