FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Spoiled food from King Claudius’s celebration is smelling up Elsinore castle.
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For the Ghost to reappear & speak to Prince Hamlet makes him think that corruption is running amuck in Elsinore castle.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” is used to describe corruption or a situation in which something is wrong.
Detailed explanation-2: -When Marcellus states, ‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’ he is talking about Denmark’s relationship with Norway but on the symbolic level he is summing up Claudius’ corrupting effect on the kingdom which is intensified by his unpunished crime.
Detailed explanation-3: -In this line from Act I, Marcellus quips that something in Denmark is rotten, a metaphor that invokes images of decay and corruption. Marcellus speaks this line just after the Ghost lures Hamlet away to talk to him.
Detailed explanation-4: -The meaning of “something rotten” signifies the betrayal and murder that occurs in Denmark. The old king Hamlet was sneakily poisoned in the ear by his own brother. His brother soon than marries the queen. Hamlet is outraged at this and he cannot fathom how his mother has gotten over his father’s death so quickly.
Detailed explanation-5: -The selected quotation is a familiar line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and is spoken by a character known as Marcellus.