FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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He suggests Hamlet think about going to the University at Cambridge.
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He tells Hamlet to stop grieving for his father’s death, and to think of him as his father.
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He tells Hamlet that he should go on a pilgrimage to honor his father.
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None of the above
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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: -Alone, Hamlet exclaims that he wishes he could die, that he could evaporate and cease to exist. He wishes bitterly that God had not made suicide a sin. Anguished, he laments his father’s death and his mother’s hasty marriage to his uncle.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet is appalled at the revelation that his father has been murdered, and the ghost tells him that as he slept in his garden, a villain poured poison into his ear-the very villain who now wears his crown, Claudius.
Detailed explanation-5: -Claudius claims that he is not responsible for Polonius’s death and says that Laertes’ desire for revenge is a credit to him, so long as he seeks revenge upon the proper person.