FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Hamlet is angered by his inability to get the lines correct.
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The actor telling Hecuba’s story has tears in his eyes at the pathos his own words induce in him.
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The speech infuriates Hamlet as he confronts his inability to summon the emotion needed to carry out his vengeance.
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The actor telling Hecuba’s story failed to add what Hamlet suggests.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet is angered by his inability to get the lines correct. The actor telling Hecuba’s story has tears in his eyes at the pathos his own words induce in him. The speech infuriates Hamlet as he confronts his inability to summon the emotion needed to carry out his vengeance.
Detailed explanation-2: -He asks the player to recite a scene where Aeneas tells Dido about Hecuba’s response to seeing her husband murdered by Pyrrhus. How does Hamlet react to hearing the speech? He has no reaction, and feels he is a coward. He decides to find out whether Claudius is guilty, and makes up a plan to test King Claudius.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hecuba is a distant figure, who has neither appeared nor even been given a direct voice. Nonetheless, the mere evocation of her suffering is enough to produce tears in audiences both within and beyond the player’s speech. The moving power of Hecuba’s laments directly highlights Hamlet’s sense of his own failings.
Detailed explanation-4: -It paves the way for Hamlet’s questioning of the “honesty” of the ghost that has demanded of him that he perform such a deed. The spirit he has seen may, indeed, be a devil, abusing him to damn him. The test of the ghost’s word is the confronting of Claudius with a mirror of his crime.
Detailed explanation-5: -Why is Hamlet so disturbed by watching the actors weep on stage as they play Queen Hecuba and King Priam? B/c they have to fake emotions for no benefit, and if they can act that sad when they are not, then they must be extremely sad when they are actually sad.