ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
“’Tis sweet and commendable in your nature Hamlet to give these mourning duties to your father. Tis unmanly grief. It shows a will most incorrect to heaven..”
A
Gertrude
B
Claudius
C
Polonius
D
Horatio
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Claudius begins his speech saying, “’Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father“, but that he “must know your father lost a father, That father lost, lost his.”(1.2.

Detailed explanation-2: -Claudius Lines 87-117 Claudius tells Hamlet that while grief for his father is appropriate, it’s inappropriate for him to continue grieving for so long. He tells him it is weak and unmanly to wallow in this grief. He tells Hamlet to think of him as being a new father to him.

Detailed explanation-3: -’Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, To give these mourning duties to your father. Of impious stubbornness. ‘Tis unmanly grief.

Detailed explanation-4: -Claudius is talking to Prince Hamlet, the son of the recently deceased King, who has refused to stop mourning this death, even after everyone else has moved on. In this speech, Claudius is pleading with Hamlet to ‘lighten up’ and relieve himself of his deep sadness, which follows him like a cloud wherever he goes.

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