Hamlet Test 2|Questions and 100% Correct Solutions| A+ Rated
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Module
Hamlet
Institution
Hamlet
Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy,
And will not let belief take hold of him
Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us.
Therefore I have entreated him along
With us to watch the minutes of this night,
That if again this apparition come
He may approve our eyes and speak of it. - Marcellus t...
Hamle t Test 2|Questions and 100% Correct Solutions | A+ Rated Horatio says 'tis but our fantasy, And will not let belief take hold of him Touching this dreaded sight, twice seen of us. Therefore I have entreated him along With us to watch the minutes of this night, That if again this apparition come He may approve our eyes and speak of it. - ✔Marcellus to Bernardo and Horatio. They are discussing the ghost of King Hamlet, showing that Marcellus is l evel-headed and Horatio is trusted. Therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, The imperial jointress to this warlike state, Have we—as 'twere with a defeated joy, With an auspicious and a dropping eye, With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage, In equal scale weighing delight and dole — Taken to wife - ✔King Claudius to his court. Claudius talks of marrying his sister -in-law, displaying that he is ambitious and manipulative. A little more than kin, and less than kind - ✔Hamlet to audience. Claud ius is both uncle and father and king. "Kind" could mean "mean" or "different kind of person". . . . But to perserver In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness. 'Tis unmanly grief. - ✔Claudius to Hamlet. Get on with it, stop moping, man up youre just being stubborn. everyone loses their fathers We pray you throw to earth This unprevailing woe, and think of us As of a father; for let the world take note You are the most immediate to our throne, And with no less nobility of love Than that which dearest father bears his son Do I impart toward you. - ✔Claudius to Hamlet Claudius tells Hamlet to stop grieving, that he will act as his father now. Hamlet is also next in line to the throne. - ✔Hamlet to himself. The first soliloquy takes place after King Claudius and Queen Gertrude urge Hamlet in open court to cast off the deep melancholy which, they believe, has taken possession of his mind as a consequence of his father's death. In the opinion of th e king and queen, Hamlet has already sufficiently grieved and mourned for his father. Prior to the soliloquy, King Claudius and Queen Gertrude announce their upcoming marriage. According to them, the court could not afford excessive grief. This announcemen t sends Hamlet into a deeper emotional spiral and inspires the soliloquy that follows. Hamlet refers the world as an 'unweeded garden' in which rank and gross things grow in abundance. He bemoans the fact that he cannot commit suicide and explains in line s 335 -336 that "self -slaughter" is not an option because it is forbidden by God. In the first two lines of the soliloquy, he wishes that his physical self might cease to exist on its own without requiring him to commit a mortal sin. Though saddened by his father's death, the larger cause of Prince Hamlet's misery is Queen Gertrude's disloyal marriage to his uncle. She announces the new marriage when barely a month has passed since his biological father's death. Hamlet mourns that even "a beast would have m ourned a little longer." Additionally, he considers this marriage to be an incestuous affair, since his mother is marrying her dead husband's brother.
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