FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet rewrites the letter to command that instead, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern be put to death. He then escapes back to Denmark. By the end of Shakespeare’s play, Prince Hamlet, Laertes, Ophelia, Polonius, King Claudius, and Queen Gertrude all lie dead.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet finally reveals his full disdain for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, saying that he has neither love nor respect for them or their King, to whom he refers as a “thing.” Hamlet calls his classmates the worst kind of parasites.
Detailed explanation-3: -He sealed the letters with his father’s State Seal, which he carried in his purse. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern do not know that Hamlet has replaced the letters, and thus, according to Hamlet, their demise will be due to their own actions in delivering the letters to the English king.
Detailed explanation-4: -When Hamlet kills Polonius, Claudius recruits Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to escort Hamlet to England, providing them with a letter for the King of England instructing him to have Hamlet killed. (They are apparently unaware of what is in the letter, though Shakespeare never explicitly says so.)
Detailed explanation-5: -Act III: Morning until the End of the Play. The stage lights come up to reveal the corpses of Hamlet, Claudius, Gertrude, and Laertes on the ground. An English ambassador announces that they have carried out Claudius’s orders and executed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.