ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“What if it tempt you toward the flood, my lord, Or to the dreadful summit of the cliff, That beetles o’er his base into the sea, ”(lines 77-79). This is the start of Horatio showing his concern towards Hamlet and how the ghost might hurt Hamlet.

Detailed explanation-2: -Horatio suggests that they tell Prince Hamlet, the dead king’s son, about the apparition. He believes that though the ghost did not speak to him, if it is really the ghost of King Hamlet, it will not refuse to speak to his beloved son.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet tells Horatio that he plans to feign madness before the King and the court. The madness will render him invisible so that he might observe and discern the best way and time for his revenge.

Detailed explanation-4: -On the guards’ platform at Elsinore, Horatio waits with Barnardo and Marcellus to question a ghost that has twice before appeared. The Ghost, in the form of the late King Hamlet of Denmark, appears but will not speak. Horatio decides to tell his fellow student, Prince Hamlet, about the Ghost’s appearance.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.