FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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a rapid rhythm
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a strong sexual undertone
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an aggressive and violent indication
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no sense of meaning to them
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Detailed explanation-1: -Ophelia enters singing fragments of songs about chaos, death, and unrequited love. The King and Queen both try to speak with her, but she replies only unintelligibly. Claudius comments that her father’s death has undoubtedly driven her mad.
Detailed explanation-2: -Not only that, by placing so much value on her virginity and claiming she will lose value, it also objectifies her simply as just a sexual object which has value only from virginity. Ophelia is objectified directly and indirectly through the sexual harassment of her brother.
Detailed explanation-3: -She sings songs about death, love, and flowers. Gertrude can make neither heads nor tails of what she’s saying, but Ophelia’s songs hint at Hamlet’s betrayal and her father’s death. After she leaves, Laertes returns, demanding to know where his father is.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ophelia uses flowers as symbols of her deep sorrow and grief. She is very upset because her father, Polonius, has just been killed by Hamlet. Being a sensitive and intelligent young woman, Ophelia needs to express herself, and she does so by passing out flowers to the court in her seeming mad state of mind.