FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Laertes
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Hamlet
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Polonius is a counsellor to the new king and queen. He is Ophelia and Laertes’ father. Laertes is the only son of Polonius and brother of Ophelia. He leaves Denmark to study in Paris.
Detailed explanation-2: -Laertes. Polonius’s son and Ophelia’s brother, a young man who spends much of the play in France. Passionate and quick to action, Laertes is clearly a foil for the reflective Hamlet.
Detailed explanation-3: -Polonius is the Lord Chamberlain of Claudius’ court. He is also the father of Ophelia and Laertes. He spies on both his children and Hamlet. Polonius also misjudges many situations throughout the play and is eventually killed by Hamlet while hiding behind an arras, or screen.
Detailed explanation-4: -Polonius’s amusing lack of self-awareness serves as a comic foil to Hamlet’s existential struggle with self-knowledge. In this sense Polonius offers an alternative and far less extreme perspective on the impossibility of perfectly knowing oneself.