FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The ship is attacked by pirates whom Hamlet befriends.
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The ship sinks leaving Hamlet as its only survivor.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The ship carrying Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to England has been attacked by a pirate vessel. In hand-to-hand fighting, Hamlet boarded the pirate boat, which then broke free, leaving Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to continue on their voyage to England without their prisoner.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first letter tells Horatio that pirates beset the ship on which Hamlet was being carried to England. In the ensuing battle, the pirates took Hamlet captive; they treated him well and brought him back to Denmark.
Detailed explanation-3: -That he wrote a letter to England’s ambassador while aboard the ship in which he detailed Claudius’s crimes and implored him to imprison Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as political prisoners for their complicity in Claudius’s schemes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet writes that his ship was attacked by pirates.
Detailed explanation-5: -This is because they wanted him to do them a favor. Hamlet does not reveal in his letter what this favor is. He is clearly relieved that his run-in with the pirates saved him from being killed upon his arrival in England, which was Claudius’s plan for him.