Skólaskýrsla 2004 - Verzlunarskóli Ãslands
Skólaskýrsla 2004 - Verzlunarskóli Ãslands
Skólaskýrsla 2004 - Verzlunarskóli Ãslands
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Hamlet 45% (22 points)<br />
Read the following quotes carefully and answer the questions on the lines<br />
provided.<br />
Act 3, scene 1<br />
HAMLET<br />
To be, or not to be: that is the question:<br />
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer<br />
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,<br />
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,<br />
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;<br />
No more; and by a sleep to say we end<br />
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks<br />
That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation<br />
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;<br />
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;<br />
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come..<br />
1. (2%) The famous question at the beginning of this soliliquoy is perhaps the single best<br />
known line in literature. What does it mean, and why is it a characteristic question<br />
for Hamlet?<br />
2 (1%) Explain the meaning of the last lines.<br />
Act 3, scene 1<br />
HAMLET<br />
Get thee to a nunnery: why wouldst thou be a<br />
breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest;<br />
but yet I could accuse me of such things that it<br />
were better my mother had not borne me: I am very<br />
proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at<br />
my beck than I have thoughts to put them in,<br />
imagination to give them shape, or time to act them<br />
in. What should such fellows as I do crawling<br />
between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves,<br />
all; believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.<br />
3 (2%) Explain how Hamlet tries to convince Ophelia that she should go to a ‘Nunnery’.<br />
The single and peculiar life is bound,<br />
With all the strength and armour of the mind,<br />
To keep itself from noyance; but much more<br />
That spirit upon whose weal depend and rest<br />
The lives of many. The cease of majesty<br />
Dies not alone; but, like a gulf, doth draw<br />
What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel,<br />
Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount,<br />
To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things<br />
Are mortised and adjoin'd; which, when it falls,<br />
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