ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who says “I have remembrances of you that I have longed long to redeliver”?
A
Gertrude
B
Horatio
C
Laertes
D
Ophelia
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Ophelia-and Daughter : What is, my lord? Ophelia-and Daughter : You are merry, my lord. Ophelia-and Daughter : My lord, I have remembrance of yours that I have longed long to re-deliver. I pray you now receive them.

Detailed explanation-2: -"My lord, I have remembrances of yours, That I have longed long to re-deliver; I pray you, now receive them.” Speaker: Ophelia. Listener: Hamlet. Ophelia is telling Hamlet that she has some mementos of his that she has been wanting to return to him for a long time now.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gertrude reveals a clue to her avoiding Ophelia when she says, “So full of artless jealousy is guilt, / It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.” The guilt remains ambiguous. Is it Gertrude’s? For what? Is it Hamlet’s?

Detailed explanation-4: -He goes on to insult Ophelia and tells her to go to a nunnery. He tells her that this will be the best place for her and, by being a nun, Ophelia won’t have children and produce wicked men like his uncle.

Detailed explanation-5: -Modern translation. Gertrude: One sadness comes after another, So fast it follows: your sister’s drowned, Laertes.

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