FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet fears that the ghost may have been sent by the devil. Hamlet is afraid to trust Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. The Ghost is in Purgatory, waiting to ascend to Heaven. Polonius believes that love for Ophelia caused Hamlet’s madness.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet is quick to believe the Ghost because the spirit’s words confirm his worst fear: Claudius murdered King Hamlet. For the Elizabethan/Jacobean audience who attended the first performances of Hamlet, murder of a king was in itself cause for alarm.
Detailed explanation-3: -Horatio fears that the ghost might cause Hamlet to kill himself.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Ghost tells Hamlet a tale of horror. Saying that he is the spirit of Hamlet’s father, he demands that Hamlet avenge King Hamlet’s murder at the hands of Claudius. Hamlet, horrified, vows to “remember” and swears his friends to secrecy about what they have seen.
Detailed explanation-5: -Ophelia is not given full funeral rites because “her death was doubtful, ” and as a possible suicide she was not entitled to the full religious ceremony. Laertes and Hamlet end up inadvertently switching swords and stabbing and poisoning each other, so they both die, and swear to be enemies until their death. false.