ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

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LITERATURE QUESTIONS

EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE

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HAMLET:My father’s spirit in arms! all is not well;I doubt some foul play:would the night were come!Till then sit still, my soul:foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o’erwhelm them, to men’s eyes.(from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet Act I, scene 2.)Which statement BEST describes these lines from William Shakespeare’s Hamlet?
A
These lines are prose and are from a drama.
B
These lines are verse and are from a drama.
C
These lines are prose and are from a literary nonfiction.
D
These lines are verse and are from literary nonfiction.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Claudius’s “foul deeds will rise"; his guilt will not be kept hidden. Hamlet’s belief in this divine justice gives him the strength to push forward-to use all his intellectual gifts to catch Claudius in his guilt.

Detailed explanation-2: -Seek for thy noble father in the dust. Thou know’st ‘tis common: all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Moral corruption and the consequent dysfunction of family and state. Some related scenes: Act 1 Scene 2: King Claudius and Queen Gertrude urge Hamlet to raise his spirits; alone on stage he expresses his outrage at his mother’s speedy remarriage to his uncle.

Detailed explanation-4: -Shakespeare does, however, use “doubt” to mean “to be uncertain or divided in opinion about” throughout the play. Hamlet employs this modern meaning in his poem to Ophelia: “Doubt thou the stars are fire; / Doubt that the sun doth move; / Doubt truth to be a liar; / But never doubt I love” (2.2. 115-118).

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