ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What is upsetting Hamlet (which he discusses in his first soliloquy)?
A
His father is appearing to the guards as a ghost.
B
His mother, the Queen, has been excommunicated.
C
Fortinbras is on the way with his army.
D
His mother has very quickly remarried a man very unlike his father.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In his first soliloquy, Hamlet bemoans the fact that he cannot commit suicide.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet is wondering whether he should continue to be, meaning to exist or remain alive, or to not exist – in other words, commit suicide. His thoughts about that develop in the rest of the soliloquy.

Detailed explanation-3: -354-359: Hamlet claims that even a brainless beast would have mourned a loved one longer. He discusses how his mother not only didn’t mourn for long, but she married her dead husband’s own brother.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fie on’t! ah fie! ‘tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this!

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