What best describes characterization?
Hamlet, Act I, Scene i contains suspense because it
Which are structural elements that are unique to dramas? Select three answers.
Which excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i is a stage direction?
In Hamlet, Act I, Scene i, which character does Shakespeare use most to create suspense?
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Marcellus: Is it not like the king?Horatio: As thou art to thyself: Such was the very armour he had on When he the ambitious Norway combated; So frown’d he once, when, in an angry parle, He smote the sledded Polacks on the ice. ’Tis strange.Marcellus: Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch.Horatio: In what particular thought to work I know not; But in the gross and scope of my opinion, This bodes some strange eruption to our state.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine, And thy best graces spend it at thy will. But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,—Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene i.Enter Ghost.Bernardo: In the same figure, like the king that’s dead.Marcellus: Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.Bernardo: Looks it not like the king? mark it, Horatio.Horatio: Most like: it harrows me with fear and wonder.Bernardo: It would be spoke to.Marcellus: Question it, Horatio.
Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii.Claudius: Take thy fair hour, Laertes; time be thine,And thy best graces spend it at thy will.But now, my cousin Hamlet, and my son,—Hamlet: [Aside.] A little more than kin, and less than kind.Claudius: How is it that the clouds still hang on you?Hamlet: Not so, my lord; I am too much i’ the sun.
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