ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Where is Hamlet set?
A
Sweden
B
Scotland
C
England
D
Denmark
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Kronborg Castle is also world famous as the setting of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet is summoned home to Denmark for his father’s funeral where a ghost appears who claims to be the former king, Hamlet’s father. The ghost claims Hamlet’s father was murdered by Hamlet’s uncle, Claudius, who then married Hamlet’s mother, Gertrude, and took the throne.

Detailed explanation-3: -It is Shakespeare’s longest play, with 29, 551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his attempts to exact revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet’s father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet’s mother.

Detailed explanation-4: -Those are echoed in the moral state of a Denmark dying from corruption with images of madness, drunkenness, murder, adultery, whoring, espionage, and war. Hamlet complains that the very air that he breathes is a “foul and pestilent congregation of vapours, ” He is rotting with a “diseased will, ” paralyzed by it.

Detailed explanation-5: -The story of Hamlet is set in the late middle ages (14th and 15th centuries, or 1300 to 1499) in and around (mostly) the royal palace in Elsinore, a city in Denmark.

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