FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Bernardo
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Haratio
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Marcellus. Marcellus is a guard at Elsinore, Barnardo’s companion on the midnight round.
Detailed explanation-2: -Marcellus, Bernardo (or Barnardo) and Francisco are sentries at Elsinore. Francisco gives up his watch to Bernardo in the opening of the play, and it is Bernardo and Marcellus, who first alert Horatio to the appearance of King Hamlet’s Ghost.
Detailed explanation-3: -Barnardo is a guard at Elsinore, charged with the midnight round. On two separate nights he has seen the ghost of Old Hamlet while standing guard. With Marcellus, he tells the tale to the skeptical Horatio; when the latter witnesses the apparition, he cannot resist a little dig at the scholar’s disbelief.
Detailed explanation-4: -Francisco and others have been assigned to guard the palace because they are protecting the castle from Norway. If Elsinore did not have a guard, someone from Norway(Fortinbras Jr.) could attack the castle for justice.