FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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He suggest Hamlet attend the University of Cambridge in England.
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He tells Hamlet to stop mourning and to think of him as his father.
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He tells him that he should marry Ophelia and settle down.
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He brags that Gertrude never loved Hamlet’s father.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -He is well and truly held in his grief, and in this moment in the play, Act 1, Scene 2, Claudius (Hamlet’s uncle – Now the King of Denmark) uses this speech to essentially tell Hamlet to ‘get over it’. Spoiler alert, it doesn’t work. Hamlet doesn’t ‘get over it’ any time soon.
Detailed explanation-3: -Claudius reminds Hamlet that he is next in line to the throne, and asks him not to return to school in Wittenberg, a request that Gertrude reiterates. Hamlet acquiesces without enthusiasm. Satisfied that they have had their way, Claudius and Gertrude leave Hamlet to his own thoughts.
Detailed explanation-4: -When a son loses a father, he is duty-bound to mourn, but to mourn for too long is unmanly and inappropriate. Claudius urges Hamlet to think of him as a father, reminding the prince that he stands in line to succeed to the throne upon Claudius’s death.
Detailed explanation-5: -In his first line, Hamlet alludes to and plays on the Elizabethan proverb, “The nearer in kin, the less in kindness, ” which means our closest relatives often treat us the worst. In this line, he suggests that now Claudius is his kin twice over-first his uncle, and now his stepfather.