FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Everyone dies, so the death of his father is nothing special
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His father didn’t care for him, anyway
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Hamlet has a new father because of the king and queen’s marriage
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Hamlet has a new mother and should accept her.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What unhelpful piece of advice do both the king and queen give Hamlet for his grief? It is against God’s plan to mourn for his father so long. From how Hamlet describes his father, which is the best answer for how we know he was a good person? He was a loving and protective husband to the queen.
Detailed explanation-2: -Gertrude and Claudius encourage him to cease grieving and to get on with life. Gertrude asks Hamlet why he seems so particularly affected by his father’s death, and Hamlet snaps at her that, unlike his mother and her husband, he has no pretenses.
Detailed explanation-3: -Claudius Lines 87-117 Claudius tells Hamlet that while grief for his father is appropriate, it’s inappropriate for him to continue grieving for so long. He tells him it is weak and unmanly to wallow in this grief. He tells Hamlet to think of him as being a new father to him.
Detailed explanation-4: -What do both the King and Queen wish Hamlet would do? Stop morning the death of his father.
Detailed explanation-5: -When a son loses a father, he is duty-bound to mourn, but to mourn for too long is unmanly and inappropriate. Claudius urges Hamlet to think of him as a father, reminding the prince that he stands in line to succeed to the throne upon Claudius’s death.