FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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In Scene 1 when Ophelia tells Polonius what took place when Hamlet visited her.
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In Scene 2 when Hamlet conducts a nonsensical conversation with Polonius.
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In Scene 2 when Hamlet plans to use the play to reveal whether Claudius is guilty of killing Hamlet’s father.
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In Scene 1 when Polonius tells the King about Hamlet’s distemper.
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Act 1, the Ghost of the King, however, reveals the truth to Hamlet that it was Claudius who poisoned him. There is dramatic irony because only the readers and Hamlet know this truth. It also turns out that only Hamlet can talk to the Ghost while Gertrude does not see him.
Detailed explanation-2: -The fact that Claudius killed the King by pouring poison into his ear while he was asleep was revealed to Hamlet in the very first Act of the play. The only ones who initially know of this are Hamlet and the audience. Hamlet also knows that Claudius does not know that he knows of the murder.
Detailed explanation-3: -The irony all belongs to Polonius; he is there to trap Hamlet and finds himself trapped instead. He has said he will silence himself, and he is indeed silenced. There is both simple irony and dramatic irony. The Ghost’s invisibility to Gertrude raises the question of Hamlet’s sanity.
Detailed explanation-4: -Situational Irony Hamlet unintentionally kills Polonius as he was spying on Hamlet’s conversation with his mother. Application of Irony: Hamlet suspects that the person spying on him is Claudius. Wanting to avenge his father, he stabs him through the curtain but it turned out to be Polonius.