HW 2/13: I.iv. and Prove It (!) statements

Assignment: Using your books, find textual support for each of the following “true” statements.  There are no false statements.  Defend them all!  Carefully use line numbers for quotes and details, please.  If you are feeling brave, you might try using . . .  [ ]  and  / .

1. Laertes cautions Ophelia against falling in love with Hamlet.

2. Polonius gives Laertes advice on how to act while he is in France.

3. Polonius is opposed to Ophelia’s relationship with Hamlet.

4. Hamlet is opposed to the “custom” of all-night drinking practiced by Claudius.

5. At first, Hamlet thinks the ghost might be evil.

6. Horatio is worried that the ghost might lead Hamlet to his death.

7. Marcellus and Horatio suggested earlier in the play that the ghost was a harbinger of war (I.ii.); however, they now think that the ghost might be trying to tell them that something is terribly wrong. (Note: just “prove” the last part … that there seems to be an indication of, as Hamlet says at the end of I.ii., “foul play”).