Aim: How can we gain insight into Hamlet’s character after his mother’s remarriage? Journal # 1: What reactions would the American people have had if Jacqueline Kennedy had remarried soon after the death of President Kennedy in 1963? What is considered a “decent period of mourning” in America today?
Critical Thinking Questions ACT I, Sc. 1 1.How does Shakespeare, in the very first scene, set a mood, explain to the reader what has happened before and build suspense and also foreshadow things to come? 2.Why have Marcellus and Horatio come to the platform at midnight?
Critical Thinking Questions ACT I, Sc. 2 1.Why was Claudius, and not Hamlet, made king after the death of Old King Hamlet? 2.Where had Hamlet been at the time of his father’s death? 3.What is meant by the word incest? 4.In his speech, how does Claudius justify his present situation?