Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Hamlet: O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.Ophelia: Nay, 'tis twice two months, my lord.Hamlet: So long? Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year; but, by 'r lady, he must build churches then, or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is, 'For, O! for, O! the hobby-horse is forgot.'How does the excerpt exemplify Elizabethan drama?
  • by exploring human emotions
  • Political power is discussed.
  • he practices deception.
  • the mirror up to nature
What word from the excerpt suggests that Hamlet has hidden motives in showing the play?
  • -They grow and change throughout the play.-They display a wide range of human emotion.-
  • mischief
  • complex characters explore human experiences.
  • it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters
What line from Act III of Hamlet supports the conclusion that Shakespeare is critical of actors?
  • the representation of human experiences
  • the mirror up to nature
  • he practices deception.
  • it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters
Shakespeare's Hamlet is an example of Elizabethan drama because
  • complex characters explore human experiences.
  • the representation of human experiences
  • mischief
  • -They grow and change throughout the play.-They display a wide range of human emotion.-
Which statement best describes why Shakespeare's Hamlet is a complex character?
  • he practices deception.
  • it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters
  • the representation of human experiences
  • His actions and emotions are varied and unpredictable.
Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Polonius:My lord, he's going to his mother's closet: Behind the arras I'll convey myself To hear the process; I'll warrant she'll tax him home; And, as you said, and wisely was it said, 'Tis meet that some more audience than a mother, Since nature makes them partial, should o'er-hear The speech, of vantage. Fare you well, my liege: I'll call upon you ere you go to bed And tell you what I know.Polonius's character is complex in the excerpt because
  • the mirror up to nature
  • he practices deception.
  • by exploring human emotions
  • Political power is discussed.
Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Rosencrantz:The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but, like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it; it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.Which statement best explains how the excerpt exemplifies Elizabethan drama?
  • the mirror up to nature
  • he practices deception.
  • by exploring human emotions
  • Political power is discussed.
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