LITERATURE QUESTIONS
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
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Hamlet’s father’s ghost is not really a ghost.
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Hamlet feels a sense of desire for both his mother and his father.
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Hamlet is truly insane in the play.
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Hamlet is an impossible play to truly understand.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Gertrude’s room, Polonius hides behind a tapestry. Hamlet’s entrance so alarms Gertrude that she cries out for help. Polonius echoes her cry, and Hamlet, thinking Polonius to be Claudius, stabs him to death. Hamlet then verbally attacks his mother for marrying Claudius.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gertrude loves her son. At the beginning of the play, she could have shown more empathy for Hamlet, who just lost his father. Nevertheless, throughout the story, Gertrude continuously defends her son in front of Claudius. Her actions prove that she loves him.
Detailed explanation-3: -He accuses Gertrude of lustfulness, and she begs him to leave her alone. King Hamlet’s Ghost reappears to Hamlet, but only Hamlet can see him. Hamlet believes that the Ghost has come to chide his tardy son into carrying out the “dread command, ” but Hamlet then perceives the Ghost as his mother’s protector.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why does Hamlet call Claudius “dear Mother"? Hamlet calls Claudius “dear Mother” because he believes that father and mother are man and wife, man and wife are one, and so Claudius is his mother. What plan does the King reveal in his brief soliloquy?