FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Horatio
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
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Ophelia
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Claudius and Polonius
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet enters, speaking his “To be or not to be” soliloquy. He ponders the nature of being and nothingness, and then notices Ophelia reading. Hamlet, assuming that she is reading prayers, asks her to pray for him. She tells him she wishes to return to him gifts he has given her.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the case of “To be or not to be” in its usual printed position, not only is Ophelia on stage where she has been instructed to stay and be discovered by Hamlet, we are also told very clearly that both Polonius and Claudius are overhearing what is going on.
Detailed explanation-3: -He falls to his knees and begins to pray. Hamlet slips quietly into the room and steels himself to kill the unseeing Claudius.
Detailed explanation-4: -No. When Hamlet knows he’s being observed he puts on his ‘antic disposition’. The “To be” soliloquy, however, is quite sober. In fact, Claudius later remarks: “Nor what he spake, though it lack’d form a little, /Was not like madness.”
Detailed explanation-5: -Polonius hears Hamlet coming, and he and the king hide. Hamlet enters, speaking thoughtfully and agonizingly to himself about the question of whether to commit suicide to end the pain of experience: “To be, or not to be: that is the question” (III.i.58).