FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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she cannot see or hear the ghost
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she is terrified of the ghost
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she is heartbroken about the ghost of her dead husband
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -She refuses to see the Ghost because of her own guilt. Gertrude’s black heart impedes her vision, refusing her the sight of her loving husband.
Detailed explanation-2: -She pleads with him to stop, saying that he has turned her eyes onto her soul and that she does not like what she sees there.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gertrude is utterly convinced now that her son is hallucinating from a devil-inspired madness, but Hamlet tells her that it is not madness that afflicts him. He begs her to confess her guilt to him and to heaven.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Ghost tells Hamlet a tale of horror. Saying that he is the spirit of Hamlet’s father, he demands that Hamlet avenge King Hamlet’s murder at the hands of Claudius. Hamlet, horrified, vows to “remember” and swears his friends to secrecy about what they have seen.