Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport In mincing with his sword her husband’s limbs, The instant burst of clamour that she made— Unless things mortal move them not at all— Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, And passion in the gods.Hecuba is a figure in Greek mythology who was married to King Priam. In the excerpt, she is shown grieving for her dead husband.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Polonius: Well be with you, gentlemen!Hamlet: Hark you, Guildenstern; and you too; at each ear a hearer: that great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet. Hamlet: Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams: all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down; for you yourself, sir, should be old as I am, if, like a crab, you could go backward.
Which statement best explains why Hamlet alludes to Pyrrhus throughout Act II,Scene ii of Hamlet?
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.He tells me, my sweet queen, that he hath found The head and source of all your son’s distemper.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann’d, Tears in his eyes, distraction in ’s aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing! For Hecuba!
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.When she saw Pyrrhus make malicious sport In mincing with his sword her husband’s limbs, The instant burst of clamour that she made— Unless things mortal move them not at all— Would have made milch the burning eyes of heaven, And passion in the gods.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Guildenstern: Prison, my lord!Hamlet: Denmark’s a prison.Rosencrantz: Then is the world one.Hamlet: A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o’ the worst.
What is the effect of the figurative language used in this excerpt? Choose three answers.
Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause, And can say nothing; no, not for a king, Upon whose property and most dear life A damn’d defeat was made. Am I a coward? Who calls me villain? breaks my pate across? Plucks off my beard and blows it in my face? Tweaks me by the nose? gives me the lie i’ the throat, As deep as to the lungs? Who does me this?
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