FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Laertes and Polonius
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Rosencrantz and Guidenstern
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Marcellus and Reynaldo
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Ophelia and Gertrude
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Detailed explanation-1: -Rosencrantz and Guildenstern arrive to tell Hamlet that he is wanted in his mother’s chambers. Rosencrantz asks again about the cause of Hamlet’s “distemper, ” and Hamlet angrily accuses the pair of trying to play him as if he were a musical pipe.
Detailed explanation-2: -He is comparing himself to a flute. This is partly because Fortune plays men like flutes. And he is saying that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern cannot play him like a flute. He is too smart.
Detailed explanation-3: -They represent corruption and deceit in the play, and their existence and actions are full of irony. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are depicted as silly, unintelligent, and spineless in that they betray an old friend for money.
Detailed explanation-4: -Claudius asks Hamlet for the play’s title, to which Hamlet replies, The Mousetrap. He says that the play presents the true story of a murder carried out in Vienna. He explains the action of the play, and Ophelia congratulates Hamlet for his story-telling skill.
Detailed explanation-5: -In this simile, Hamlet sarcastically tells Rosencrantz and Guildenstern that playing a pipe is as easy as lying (which they have been doing to him). He means, ironically, that their lies sound as ridiculous as a person trying to play a musical instrument without knowing how.