FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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He believes Ophelia cannot handle her father’s death.
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He believes cannot handle being without Hamlet.
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is Caludius’s theory on why Ophelia is acting so odd? Is he right? Claudius believes it is due to the grief of her her fathers death and having nobody left. Her brother isn’t around either.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ophelia was completely devastated over her father’s death, “He is dead, Gone to thy deathbed, He will never come again.” When she is introduced as being mad in the play in Act IV, scene 5, she makes many references to her father’s death through a song she sings.
Detailed explanation-3: -Claudius says that Hamlet’s strange behavior has clearly not been caused by love for Ophelia and that his speech does not seem like the speech of insanity. He says that he fears that melancholy sits on something dangerous in Hamlet’s soul like a bird sits on her egg, and that he fears what will happen when it hatches.
Detailed explanation-4: -does not seem sorry for his crime. When Claudius hears that Hamlet has killed Polonius, what does he say? Hamlet might have killed him.