Hamlet--Act+3

1. What plan do Claudius, Gertrude, and Polonius generate? 2. What is the essence of Hamlet's soliloquy? 3. What happens between Hamlet and Ophelia? With what effect on each? 4. What does Hamlet request of Horatio? 5. What is "the play within a play" about? 6. How do Claudius and Gertrude EACH react to the play? 7. Rosencrantz, Guildenstern, and Polonius all make requests of Hamlet--what are they? 8. In scene three what do you learn about Claudius? 9. Why doesn't Hamlet kill Claudius when he has the chance? 10. Why is Polonius in the queen's chamber? 11. What is the discussion between Hamlet and Gertrude? How is it interrupted? 12. What have you learned about Hamlet's character from this scene? How does it end?