ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

HAMLET

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who says, “The king, the king’s to blame”?
A
Hamlet
B
Gertrude
C
Laertes
D
Osric
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -I can no more-the king, the king’s to blame. Knowing that he is a dead man, and realizing, at last, exactly what fate the stars hold for him, Hamlet attacks Claudius with the vengeance that has resided in his heart all along.

Detailed explanation-2: -Laertes; Meaning: the king is to blame.

Detailed explanation-3: -Laertes is the son of Polonius and the brother of Ophelia. In the final scene, he mortally stabs Hamlet with a poison-tipped sword to avenge the deaths of his father and sister, for which he blamed Hamlet.

Detailed explanation-4: -Claudius tells Laertes that if he truly still loves his father-and still wants to avenge him-he must “show [him]self in deed [to be his] father’s son, ” not just in words. Laertes says he would cut Hamlet’s throat even in the middle of a church. Laertes is hellbent on revenge-but so far he’s all talk, no action.

Detailed explanation-5: -Furthermore the reason that Laertes is able to inform Hamlet to kill the King, is because he is the only character who knows the King told him (Laertes) to ‘choose (/) A sword unbated, and, in a pass of practice, (/) Requite him (Hamlet) for your (Laertes) father’ (4.7 139-40).

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