ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

MACBETH

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
How many soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet in the play Hamlet?
A
Nine
B
Five
C
Seven
D
Three
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In his work, ‘Hamlet’, Shakespeare’s title character is shown to speak in seven soliloquies. Each soliloquy advances the plot, reveals Hamlet’s inner thoughts to the audience and helps to create an atmosphere in the play.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet’s soliloquies reveals how he is progressively changing his character from being angry about his parents, to confusion about his father’s murder, leading him to become an antic disposition character.

Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet’s seventh and final soliloquy falls in Act 4, Scene 4. The scene develops when Prince Hamlet, on his way to England, sees Fortinbras, who is leading his army through Denmark to capture some part of Poland, a small territory which, according to the captain, “hath in it no profit, but the name.”

Detailed explanation-4: -"O, sullied flesh would melt” "O, all you host of heaven” "what a rogue and peasant slave i am” "to be or not to be” "tis now the very witching time of night” "now might i do it pat now he is praying” "how all occasions do inform against me..thoughts be bloody"

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