Hamlet Assignment

Peyton Draper

Mrs. Larson

AP English 4

4 May 2014

Your Notes Assignment

Hamlet

Main Characters

Hamlet- The protagonist of the story. Son to King Hamlet and Queen Gertrude and nephew to Claudius, he spends most of the play seeking revenge on Claudius for the death of his father.

Laertes- The son of Polonius and brother to Ophelia, Laertes kills Hamlet to avenge his own father’s death.

Ophelia- The daughter of Polonius and sister to Laertes, Ophelia is the damsel in distress who eventually becomes mad.

Claudius- Husband to Gertrude and uncle to Hamlet, he is the antagonist of the play and kills King Hamlet in order to become king himself.

Quotations

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be:

For loan oft loses both itself and friend;

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.

This above all,—to thine own self be true;

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.”

Symbols or Motifs

The skull of Yorick- The skull of the once-beloved Yorick sets in stone for Hamlet the definiteness of death.

Themes

Madness- Th...