FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Laertes
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Polonius
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Rosencrantz
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Hamlet
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: In Act II, Scene 2 of the play, Hamlet is talking with his childhood friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who have been summoned to the court to uncover the reason for Hamlet’s melancholy state. The young Hamlet says that, for him, Denmark is a prison and he is trapped there.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet says, “Denmark’s a prison.
Detailed explanation-3: -A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o’ the worst. We think not so, my lord. it is a prison.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet calls Denmark a prison because he feels as if everyone is turning against him, and everyone is watching him, similar to how prisoners are watched in a prison, and he says that Denmark is the worst of the prisons, strictly because there is no one he can trust, not even his friends.
Detailed explanation-5: -Here, it becomes clear that when Hamlet says “prison, ” he’s referring to the confines of his country-Denmark. Hamlet is confined and at the mercy of the leaders of his country, including King Claudius, who he believes murdered his father and the men that the king employees, including Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.