ask game: shakespeare edition
1. Whatās your hamartia? Your tragic, fatal flaw? (Pride, arrogance, ambition, vanity, jealousy, rebellion, etc.)
2. Do you believe in ghosts?
3. How tenuous is your grip on reality?
4. Is all justified in the name of true love?
5. What are you not willing to do to get what you want?
6. Are you afraid of death?
7. āLifeās but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more. It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing.ā Do you think your life has meaning?
8. Would you die for those you love? Would you kill for them?
9. Are you overly cautious, or overly reckless, or neither?
10. Do you believe in fate? Are some things meant to be?
11. Have you been betrayed by someone you loved? Have you betrayed someone who loved you?
12. Are you loyal? What does a person have to do to earn your loyalty?
13. Are you religious? How? Why?
14. āRomeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?ā Why are you the person you are today?
15. How close are you to insanity? What would it take to push you over the edge?
16.Ā āDoubt thou the stars are fire, /Ā Doubt that the sun doth move, /Ā Doubt truth to be a liar, /Ā But never doubt I love.ā Are you in love? If not, do you know someone who you could fall in love with?
17. Do you glorify war (or combat in general)?
18. What Greek God or mythological figure do you see yourself the most in?
19. āI wasted time, and now doth time waste me.ā Do you feel like youāre running out of time? Do you ever feel like your youth was wasted, or perhaps, stolen?
20. Favourite Shakespeare quote? Favourite play?
21.Ā āThe quality of mercy is not strainād, / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenā.Ā Are you merciful? Or, if you do not know, if given the opportunity to forgive someone who had wronged you greatly, would you forgive them?
22.Ā āAnd this our life, exempt from public haunt, / Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, / Sermons in stones, and good in everything. / I would not change it.ā Do you ever feel the urge to escape civilisation? To return to a place, wild and feral?
23.Ā āThere are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, / Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.ā What unexplainable thing do you want an answer to?
24.Ā āScrew your courage to the sticking placeā. Are you brave? Will you need your courage for something soon?
25.Ā āTo die, to sleep; / To sleep: perchance to dreamā. What do you think comes after death?Ā
26. What taboo topic are you fascinated by, if any?
27.Ā āThe fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.ā Do you seek power?Ā
28.Ā āBy the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes.ā Do you think you are a good person? What does it even mean to beĀ āgoodā, to beĀ āwickedā? Could you be good? Could you be wicked?
29. Do you believe in magic or witchcraft, even just a little?
30. Are you true to yourself?