The Tragedy of Hamlet by William Shakespeare ACT II, Scene II

1. What does King Claudius and Queen Gertrude ask Guildenstern and Rosencrantz to do?
Why?

2. How are Fortinbras, Prince of Norway, and Prince Hamlet similar?

3. In speaking with Guildenstern and Rosencrantz, what does Hamlet want from them? Why do they resist telling Hamlet what he wants to know?

4. What is Hamlet's plan involving the play The Murder of Gonzago?

5. How does Hamlet see himself as similar to Pyrrhus, the main character in the play The
Murder of Gonzago?

Read the passage from sugar changed the world. for an african, whether you were sent to the caribbean or south america, you were now part of the sugar machine. and it did not much matter where your ship landed. you could be working the fertile fields of brazil or the hills of jamaica; the brutal cycle of making sugar was much the same. how does the use of the word machine support the authors' claim in this passage? its negative connotation indicates that enslaved people had to work like robots instead of human beings. its negative denotation indicates that some people preferred handmade sugar over factory-produced sugar. its positive connotation indicates that plantations ran efficiently and produced huge amounts of sugar. its positive denotation indicates that it was easier for enslaved people to make sugar with machines.