FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Because it is about betrayal
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Because action is repeatedly put off
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Because it takes place in Denmark
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Because it is a tragedy
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Detailed explanation-1: -Commanded by his father’s ghost in Act 1 to ‘Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder’ by his brother Claudius, who has robbed him of his wife and throne as well as his life, Hamlet swears that ‘with wings as swift / As meditation, or the thoughts of love, ’ he will ‘sweep to [his] revenge’ (1.5. 25, 29–31).
Detailed explanation-2: -After the ghost tells Hamlet that Claudius murdered him by poisoning him, Hamlet is eager seek revenge. However, he ends up having a difficult time carrying out the plan. Hamlet is stuck between wanting to take vengeance for his father and an inner struggle to do what is right.
Detailed explanation-3: -It is a play driven by a protagonist who spends most of the play contemplating revenge rather than exacting it. Hamlet’s inability to avenge the murder of his father drives the plot and leads to the deaths of most of the major characters, including Polonius, Laertes, Ophelia, Gertrude, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.
Detailed explanation-4: -Death. Death is a regular motif in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. A murder occurs even before the play begins, and many more follow as the play progresses. However, death appears as a motif in several different instances, primarily on the topic of suicide.