ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -They go on with different causes until Gertrude speaks out the truth in a few lines: “I doubt it is no other but the main, / His father’s death and our o’erhasty marriage.” However, she does not know that her new husband has killed the old one, while Hamlet does.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet sees the ghost of his father. The ghost tells him that it was his brother Claudius, the new king, who killed him and commands Hamlet to get revenge. Hamlet has been behaving strangely and Claudius asks Hamlet’s childhood friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, to find out why.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet tries desperately to convince Gertrude that he is not mad but has merely feigned madness all along, and he urges her to forsake Claudius and regain her good conscience. He urges her as well not to reveal to Claudius that his madness has been an act.

Detailed explanation-4: -Gertrude Lines 68-73 Gertrude tells Hamlet that he should no longer wear black mourning clothes and that he should look happier. She tells him he should not keep his eye downward as if he were looking for his father in the dirt.

Detailed explanation-5: -When Hamlet encounters his Father death, he becomes obsessed with death itself. He begins to wonder if suicide is the answer to end his suffering. In the play, hamlet says “O, that this too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew”(I. ii.