Find related themes, quotes, symbols, characters, and more. LitCharts Teacher Editions. You can view our. Horatio, Hamlet's best friend, must answer both of these questions. My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth. To do this, he says, will require all his majesty and skill (IV.i.30). The Ghost, in the form of the late King Hamlet of Denmark, appears but will not speak. The songs she sings are quite sexual especially the one that begins, To-morrow is Saint Valentines day. This ballad, which documents the duplicity of a man who promises to marry a young maid in order to get her into bed, and then abandons her because she relented to him, has been read by some as evidence that Ophelia herself gave up her virginity to Hamlet, who then left her in the lurch. If one looks forward to Act Five, it seems as though she was indeed a suicide. Fortinbras was spurred to action by his desire for revenge. He says that Laertes has come from France, egged on by people who see the court as responsible for Polonius death. In the play Hamlet, Shakespeare. If he fails, Claudius will give Hamlet a poisoned cup of wine. The king then orders Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to seek out Hamlet and find out where he has taken Polonius. SparkNotes PLUS PLUS. Gertrude recounts Hamlets latest behavior to Claudius. Polonius sends his servant Reynaldo to Paris to question Laertess acquaintances. Alas, how shall this bloody deed be answered? Re-creating Hamlet in comic form was an interesting way to study the play as well as get more of an understanding. The fifth section provides resolution. He can no longer escape the necessity for action. They're like having in-class notes for every discussion!, This is absolutely THE best teacher resource I have ever purchased. If it was previously possible to consider Hamlet a hero or an idealized version of a human being, it is no longer possible after he kills Polonius.