ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who did the King and Queen send to spy on Hamlet?
A
Voltemand and Cornelius.
B
Polonius and Laertes.
C
Claudius and Gertrude.
D
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Claudius and Gertrude set Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two boyhood friends of Hamlet, to spy on him. When Hamlet himself enters, he is confronted first by Polonius and then by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, whom he quickly identifies as Claudius’s spies.

Detailed explanation-2: -31. Why have the king and queen supposedly sent for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? They have supposedly been sent for to cheer Hamlet up. Claudius also wants them to discover the cause of Hamlet’s madness.

Detailed explanation-3: -Claudius and Gertrude are worried about Hamlet, who’s been acting crazy in court, so they dispatch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to spy on him.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fearing that Hamlet is a threat to his life and throne, the King summons Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and instructs them to hurry and take Hamlet to England.

Detailed explanation-5: -Increasingly concerned about Hamlet’s erratic behavior and his apparent inability to recover from his father’s death, the king and queen have summoned his friends to Elsinore in the hope that they might be able to cheer Hamlet out of his melancholy, or at least discover the cause of it.

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