1. Hamlet is instantly suspicious of his friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. How do you know?
2. How does Hamlet feel about himself and his ability to avenge his father's death? (Hint He expresses his feelings during a soliloquy)
3. A group of actors have come to Elsinore to put on a play. Hamlet has asked the actors if he can write part of their script. What will the
play be about? What his Hamlet hoping to accomplish?

With crack on crack of thunder, zeus let fly a bolt against the ship, a direct hit, so that she bucked, in reeking fumes of sulphur, and all the men were flung into the sea. they came up 'round the wreck, bobbing a while like petrels on the waves. no more seafaring homeward for these, no sweet day of return; the god had turned his face from them. –the odyssey, homer read the passage. then, identify the theme that is supported by the passage. most ships cannot survive a terrible thunderstorm. the ocean is an angry beast that will tame any who try to control it. the gods have the power to control human destiny. men are willing to die to eat the delicious cattle of the gods.