FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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He cannot wait to kill Hamlet!
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He did not like losing the first two rounds to Hamlet.
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He wishes he didn’t have to pretend Hamlet’s death was an accident.
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He is having second thoughts about getting revenge on Hamlet.
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Detailed explanation-1: -[aside] “And yet it is almost against my conscience.” Laertes says this quote to himself when Gertrude takes a drink from the cup with the poisonous pearl in it. It means he feels guilty for Gertrude drinking from the cup.
Detailed explanation-2: -Act 2 scene 2 Polonius suggests the king and queen spy on Hamlet as he talks to him. Hamlet speaks in riddles, suggesting that he is mad, though his speech also contains hidden meanings which Polonius picks up on. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern enter and Hamlet reveals that he knows they were sent to spy on him.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet’s first soliloquy takes place in act 1, scene 2, when Hamlet is expressing his misery and shock at his mother’s new marriage to his uncle. He uses metaphor ("Frailty, thy name is woman!") and simile ("Like Niobe, all tears").
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet Act 1, Scene 2 establishes that Old King Hamlet has died recently, and that his brother Claudius ascended to the throne and married his widow Gertrude quickly after his brother’s death. Claudius and Gertrude are both concerned (for different reasons) about Hamlet’s deep sadness and ennui.