FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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A worm
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A fishmonger
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A sponge
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A sucker
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Detailed explanation-1: -What does Hamlet compare Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to? Why? He compares them to a sponge because they “suck up” information, and if you “squeeze” them they give up the information. What is Claudius’s response when Gertrude tells him that Hamlet murdered Polonius ?
Detailed explanation-2: -’ When Hamlet says Rosencrantz is a sponge, he is accusing Rosencrantz of doing whatever Claudius asks him to do. Hamlet is accusing Rosencrantz of being a pushover and a blind follower.
Detailed explanation-3: -He calls Rosencrantz a “sponge . . . that soaks up the king’s countenance, his rewards, his authorities, ” and warns him that “when he needs what you have gleaned, it is but squeezing you, and, sponge, you shall be dry again” (IV. ii. 11–19).
Detailed explanation-4: -He is comparing himself to a flute. This is partly because Fortune plays men like flutes. And he is saying that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern cannot play him like a flute. He is too smart.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hamlet finally reveals his full disdain for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, saying that he has neither love nor respect for them or their King, to whom he refers as a “thing.” Hamlet calls his classmates the worst kind of parasites.