FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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He wants Claudius to reveal his guilt.
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He wants to Ophelia to recognizesimilarities between her own life and theplay.
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He wants Polonius to fall asleep.
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He wants Gertrude to be embarrassed.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet’s objective is to avenge the murder of his father by killing Claudius. By attempting to achieve this goal, the dramatic action of the entire play is driven forward.
Detailed explanation-2: -The reason Hamlet gives instructions to the players is that he wants them to enact a scene similar to how he thinks his father was killed. He wants to see how Claudius reacts to the scene.
Detailed explanation-3: -The travelling players arrive and Hamlet asks them to perform a moving speech from ‘Hecuba and Priam’. He then asks them to perform ‘The Murder of Gonzago’ for the king and his guests the following evening.
Detailed explanation-4: -He resolves to devise a trap for Claudius, forcing the king to watch a play whose plot closely resembles the murder of Hamlet’s father; if the king is guilty, he thinks, he will surely show some visible sign of guilt when he sees his sin reenacted on stage.