ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What country was the play set in?
A
Kenya
B
Denmark
C
Transylvania
D
England
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Elsinore. Elsinore is a real place between Denmark and Sweden and the whole play is set in the castle there. In the play it is referred to as Elsinore Castle but the only castle that actually existed in that town was called Kronborg Castle and it still stands today. Hamlet sees the ghost of his father.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet is summoned home to Denmark for his father’s funeral where a ghost appears who claims to be the former king, Hamlet’s father. The ghost claims Hamlet’s father was murdered by Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, who then married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, and took the throne.

Detailed explanation-3: -Those are echoed in the moral state of a Denmark dying from corruption with images of madness, drunkenness, murder, adultery, whoring, espionage, and war. Hamlet complains that the very air that he breathes is a “foul and pestilent congregation of vapours, ” He is rotting with a “diseased will, ” paralyzed by it.

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