FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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three months
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one month
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not quite two months
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not quite four months
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Detailed explanation-1: -About how long has Hamlet’s father been dead? Less than two months. Explain why Hamlet says, “Frailty, thy name is woman!” He’s remarking upon the weakness in character of women, based of of how quickly his mother remarried after the death of his father, whom he idolized, and to his own brother no less.
Detailed explanation-2: -ii. 123) since Old Hamlet’s death, and thus we know that the play Hamlet opens more or less two months before the play “The Mousetrap, ” since in our play’s second scene, Hamlet says that his father has been “but two months dead, nay, not so much, not two” (I. ii. 138).
Detailed explanation-3: -He’s only been dead two months – no, not even that long. He was such a great king, like a Greek god compared to Claudius – that dirty goat.
Detailed explanation-4: -It has been “twice two months” since King Hamlet was murdered (according to Ophelia). At the beginning of the play, it had been two months. The play depicts an elapse of two months.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hamlet, according to the evidence of Act V. Scene i., is thirty years of age; and that is a very late age for a university student.