ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who said “How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!”
A
Cladius
B
Laertes
C
Hamlet
D
Horatio
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on’t! ah fie! ‘tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.

Detailed explanation-2: -“Brevity is the soul of wit.” “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.” “Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him Horatio.”

Detailed explanation-3: -Summary of Hamlet’s First Soliloquy “O that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!” Though saddened by his father’s death, the larger cause of Prince Hamlet’s misery is Queen Gertrude’s disloyal marriage to his uncle.

Detailed explanation-4: -O God God, How weary, stale, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world”(132), which shows how Hamlet is contemplating suicide. Hamlet is saying that he wishes his “flesh would melt” into nothing and the only thing that is in his way to commit suicide is God.

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