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Aim : How can we gain insight into Hamlet’s character after his mother’s remarriage?

Aim : How can we gain insight into Hamlet’s character after his mother’s remarriage?. Journal # 1 :

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Aim : How can we gain insight into Hamlet’s character after his mother’s remarriage?

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  1. 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?

  2. Critical Thinking Questions ACT I, Sc. 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? • Why have Marcellus and Horatio come to the platform at midnight?

  3. Critical Thinking Questions ACT I, Sc. 2 • Why was Claudius, and not Hamlet, made king after the death of Old King Hamlet? • Where had Hamlet been at the time of his father’s death? • What is meant by the word incest? • In his speech, how does Claudius justify his present situation?

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