FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Claudius and Gertrude pretend sorrow but feel none.
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long after a person stops wearing the color of mourning, sadness remains.
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until he can recover from his sorrow, he will continue to wear black.
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Claudius is to blame for his father’s death.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which line from Hamlet’s soliloquy in Scene 2 expresses the cause of the conflict he is feeling? “O, most wicked speed, to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” he distrusts Hamlet’s constancy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gertrude and Claudius encourage him to cease grieving and to get on with life. Gertrude asks Hamlet why he seems so particularly affected by his father’s death, and Hamlet snaps at her that, unlike his mother and her husband, he has no pretenses. “Seems, Madam?
Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet is as upset about his mother’s remarriage as he is about his father’s death. His mother’s willingness to marry Claudius undercuts Hamlet’s view that his mother and father loved each other deeply.
Detailed explanation-4: -Act 1 scene 2 King Claudius addresses the court and talks about the sad death of his brother, Old Hamlet. He then toasts his marriage to his brother’s wife, Gertrude, saying ‘With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, / In equal scale weighing delight and dole’ he has ‘Taken to wife’ his ‘sometime sister’.