Essay Questions:
1. Why does Hamlet delay so long in avenging his father’s murder?
2. What is the role of theatre within Hamlet? What is the purpose of the Hecuba speech, the play-within-the-play, and Hamlet’s advice to actors? What practical purposes do theatrical moments serve in the plot? What symbolic purposes do they serve? Does theater “hold, as twere, a mirror up to nature” (3.2.2)?
3. How do Hamlet’s seven soliloquies reveal his character?
4. One of the more famous lines in Hamlet is, “To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man” (1.3.1). Which of the characters in Hamlet are true to themselves? Does that prevent them from being false to one another? Does the meaning of this quote change for you when you consider that it’s spoken by Polonius, one of the play’s most frequently mocked characters?
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