ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Name two childhood friends of Prince Hamlet.
A
Marcellus and Reynaldo
B
Claudius and Polonius
C
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
D
Ophelia and Laertes
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Horatio is an old and trusted friend of Hamlet’s. They met as students in Wittenberg. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are childhood friends of Hamlet.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are two old friends of Hamlet’s. They are invited by Claudius and Gertrude to find out what is wrong with Hamlet and what is causing his ‘madness’.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are characters in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Hamlet. They are childhood friends of Hamlet, summoned by King Claudius to distract the prince from his apparent madness and if possible to ascertain the cause of it.

Detailed explanation-4: -Horatio. Hamlet’s close friend, who studied with the prince at the university in Wittenberg. Horatio is loyal and helpful to Hamlet throughout the play. After Hamlet’s death, Horatio remains alive to tell Hamlet’s story.

Detailed explanation-5: -Synopsis: Claudius and Gertrude set Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two boyhood friends of Hamlet, to spy on him. When Hamlet himself enters, he is confronted first by Polonius and then by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, whom he quickly identifies as Claudius’s spies.

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