What tone does Claudius take with Hamlet in the following text from Act I, Scene ii?Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, / To give these mourning duties to your father. / But you must know your father lost a father, / That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound / ..... / Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, From the first corse till he that died today, / This must be so. We pray you, throw to earth / This unprevailing woe, and think of us / As of a father. For let the world take note / You are the most immediate to our throne, / And with no less nobility of love / Than that which dearest father bears his son / Do I impart toward you. For your intent / In going back to school in Wittenberg, / It is most retrograde to our desire. / And we beseech you, bend you to remain / Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye, / Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.

HAMLET

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What tone does Claudius take with Hamlet in the following text from Act I, Scene ii?’Tis sweet and commendable in your nature, Hamlet, / To give these mourning duties to your father. / But you must know your father lost a father, / That father lost, lost his, and the survivor bound / ____ / Is death of fathers, and who still hath cried, From the first corse till he that died today, / “This must be so.” We pray you, throw to earth / This unprevailing woe, and think of us / As of a father. For let the world take note / You are the most immediate to our throne, / And with no less nobility of love / Than that which dearest father bears his son / Do I impart toward you. For your intent / In going back to school in Wittenberg, / It is most retrograde to our desire. / And we beseech you, bend you to remain / Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye, / Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son.

A	A tone of all knowing advice
B	A tone of fatherly advice
C	A tone of degrading advice
D	A tone of disappointment

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer. Hamlet’s tone is passionate, confident, vindictive, etc.

Detailed explanation-2: -He is repentant. He feels guilt. He also alludes to one of his motives being the love he had for Gertrude, now his queen. None of these factors excuse Claudius’ heinous actions, but to condemn him as an actor playing him is to risk oversimplification of the role and soliloquy.

Detailed explanation-3: -Claudius is talking to Prince Hamlet, the son of the recently deceased King, who has refused to stop mourning this death, even after everyone else has moved on. In this speech, Claudius is pleading with Hamlet to ‘lighten up’ and relieve himself of his deep sadness, which follows him like a cloud wherever he goes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Analysis of Hamlet’s Soliloquy, Act 1. Scene II. This soliloquy begins with Hamlet desiring death, saying, ‘this too solid flesh would melt’, but this desire comes coupled with the fear that God does not condone ‘self-slaughter’. This reveals that Hamlet is feeling melancholic.

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