FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Provides Claudius with a detailed map.
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Childishly repeats Claudius’ questions back to him.
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Speaks in riddles
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Escapes to Wittenberg.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Act 4, Scene 2, when Hamlet is being questioned by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern on the whereabouts of Polonius’s body Hamlet says “The body is with the King, but the King is not with the / body, ” (4.2. 25-26).
Detailed explanation-2: -Summary: Act IV, scene iii Finally, Hamlet reveals that Polonius’s body is under the stairs near the castle lobby, and the king dispatches his attendants to look there.
Detailed explanation-3: -When Claudius again asks Hamlet where Polonius is, Hamlet then says, “In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger / find him not there, seek him i’ th’ other / place yourself.
Detailed explanation-4: -When Claudius first asks Hamlet where he put Polonius’ body, Hamlet tells him he is at supper. He explains that he is not eating but being eaten himself by worms. Hamlet uses this analogy of worms eating a body to describe the fact that Polonius is dead.
Detailed explanation-5: -By a riddle, Hamlet told them: “The king has a human body, but he deserves not the body. The king is nothing but a fox with the human skin, and everyone follows him.” ROS: My Lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the King. HAM: The body is with the King, but the King is not with the body.