ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Explain the quotation:“O Hamlet, speak no more!Thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grainèd spotsAs will not leave their tinct.”
A
Speak no more! You rave fantasies!
B
Speak no more-this is no way to address your mother!
C
Speak no more! You show me my own guilt.
D
Speak no more! You’ve shown me your true, black nature.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -“O Hamlet, speak no more: Thou turn’stmine eyes into my very soul; And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave theirtinct.” Gertrude realizes she is not pure or innocent in these matters, but still doesn’t want toacknowledge them further.

Detailed explanation-2: -Gertrude. Oh, Hamlet speak no more!

Detailed explanation-3: -“To thine own self be true.” “Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t.” “Brevity is the soul of wit.” “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

Detailed explanation-4: -Q: What is the reason for Hamlet giving instructions to the players? The reason Hamlet gives instructions to the players is that he wants them to enact a scene similar to how he thinks his father was killed. He wants to see how Claudius reacts to the scene.

Detailed explanation-5: -’To be, or not to be: that is the question’. Arguably the most famous quotation in the whole of Hamlet, this line begins one of Hamlet’s darkest and most philosophical soliloquies.

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