FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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he is disillusioned with his mother
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she had lied to him before
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he knows her purpose in talking to him
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he can no longer tell truth from lies
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Detailed explanation-1: -SARAH: Hamlet asks Ophelia two questions. The first is about her honesty-or her virtue. Honesty could mean being truthful, or being virtuous in general, but for a woman, it could also mean her chastity. RALPH: The second question is about her being fair, or physically beautiful.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ophelia enters and the two begin a very strained conversation. Hamlet insults her virtue and tells her that, while he may have loved her once, he certainly doesn’t love her now. After Hamlet departs, Claudius and Polonius reenter, newly suspicious that Hamlet’s madness isn’t lovesickness after all.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet is at first courteous to Ophelia, but suddenly he turns on her: he denies having loved her, asks where her father is, attacks womankind, and tells her she should enter a nunnery.
Detailed explanation-4: -He goes on to insult Ophelia and tells her to go to a nunnery. He tells her that this will be the best place for her and, by being a nun, Ophelia won’t have children and produce wicked men like his uncle. All through the scene Claudius and Polonius, Ophelia’s father, are hiding and watching what happens.