FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Dramatic
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Verbal
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Situational
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Shakespearean
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Detailed explanation-1: -Another example of dramatic irony is connected with Hamlet pretending to be mad. To hide his plan for revenge, he makes Claudius believe that he is insane. His friends, Marcellus and Horatio, and the readers know he is pretending, which creates an irony.
Detailed explanation-2: -In Laurence Olivier’s film adaptation of Hamlet, Gertrude drinks knowingly, presumably to save her son from certain death. If she drinks on purpose, then she’s the self-sacrificing mother Hamlet has always wanted her to be.
Detailed explanation-3: -What does Gertrude’s accidental death reveal about Claudius? That he is careless and does not carefully consider his plans before enacting them. That he truly loves Gertrude and cannot stand to see her suffer as a result of his sins.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ophelia’s drowning is the consummate representation of an eternal retreat into the feminine, trading an individual voice for eternal silence in union with feminine essence. In turn, her death expresses the danger of reducing an individual to his or her gender and disregarding the voice of the marginalized.