FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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The land is worthless
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No one has ever successfully defeated the Poles
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Fortinbras is travelling in the wrong direction
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The Poles have never had a disagreement with the Norwegians
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet considers the moral ambiguity of Fortinbras’s action, but more than anything else he is impressed by the forcefulness of it, and that forcefulness becomes a kind of ideal toward which Hamlet decides at last to strive.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet finds that he is impressed by Fortinbras because he is a man of action in command of an army willing to fight for their honor rather than riches. Hamlet realizes that thousands of men will fight and likely die over land too small to bury all the bodies.
Detailed explanation-3: -Fortinbras, the prince of Norway, is on his way to wage war on Poland. (His men and Hamlet cross paths, and Hamlet learns of Fortinbras’s plans. Hamlet is impressed. He admires Fortinbras’s commitment and courage, and decides to follow his example.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sometime in the past, the late King Hamlet had killed King Fortinbras of Norway and seized his lands. Young Fortinbras, his son, is now gathering an army to Denmark to take back the lands his father lost.