FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Polonius hides behind the curtain.
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Hamlet sees the King on his knees, praying.
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Hamlet pushes the Queen into her chair.
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern leave him alone.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet slips quietly into the room and steels himself to kill the unseeing Claudius . But suddenly it occurs to him that if he kills Claudius while he is praying, he will end the king’s life at the moment when he was seeking forgiveness for his sins, sending Claudius’s soul to heaven.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet delays killing Claudius because Claudius represents Hamlet’s innermost desires to sleep with his mother Gertrude.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet comes upon him kneeling and draws his sword, but then stops to think that if he kills Claudius at prayer, Claudius will go to heaven. Hamlet decides to kill Claudius when the king is committing a sin so that Claudius will instead go to hell.
Detailed explanation-4: -When he does at last kill Claudius in the dying moments of Act 5, he does so suddenly, without forethought, poisoning the King in revenge for conniving to poison him and for accidentally poisoning Gertrude.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hamlet does not kill Claudius when he assumes that he is praying because he doesn’t want Claudius to have the luxury of going to heaven while his father, unjustly murdered, suffers in hell.