FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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jumped over the castle walls to her death
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stabbed herself in the heart with a dagger
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fallen into a pond and drowned
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purposefully letting venomous snakes bite her
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Detailed explanation-1: -She says that he is as mad as the sea during a violent storm; she also tells Claudius that Hamlet has killed Polonius.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gertrude interrupts their plotting with her report of Ophelia’s drowning. She describes the young woman’s death graphically, explaining how she had fallen in the brook while weaving flower garlands; the willow tree branch on which she was sitting broke so that she tumbled into the water.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gertrude reveals a clue to her avoiding Ophelia when she says, “So full of artless jealousy is guilt, / It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.” The guilt remains ambiguous.
Detailed explanation-4: -Gertrude enters with tragic news. Ophelia, mad with grief, has drowned in the river. Anguished to have lost his sister so soon after his father’s death, Laertes flees the room.