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Here are the important questions from Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Hamlet is one of the most anticipated and famous books of William Shakespeare and it is also important from an examination perspective.
Q1: When did Shakespeare make his first attempt at his book Hamlet?
Answer: According to sources, Shakespeare made the first attempt at Hamlet in 1601.
Q2: Which country does prince Hamlet belong to?
Answer: Prince Hamlet belongs to Denmark.
Q3: From where Prince Hamlet comes to Denmark?
Answer: Prince Hamlet comes to Denmark from the University of Wittenberg.
Q4: Why Hamlet leaves Wittenberg and comes to Denmark?
Answer: Because of his father’s sudden death, Hamlet comes to Denmark.
Q5: What bad event he faces after coming to his father’s funeral?
Answer: He finds that his mother has married his uncle.
Q6: What is the name of Hamlet’s uncle?
Answer: His uncle’s name is Claudius.
Q7: What is the name of Hamlet’s mother?
Answer: Gertrude
Q8: At which place, does the play Hamlet open?
Answer: Elsinore
Q9: Who first tells about the ghost to other guards?
Answer: Barnado tries to tell other guards about the appearance of the ghosts.
Q10: Whose ghosts is it?
Answer: It is the ghost of the deceased King of Denmark, the father of Prince Hamlet.
Q11: Who tries to talk to the ghost when it appears?
Answer: Horatio tries to talk to it.
Q12: Whose reference Horatio brings in when he talks about ghosts?
Answer: Horatio discusses Julius Caesar’s assassination which was preceded by supernatural occurrences.
Q13: When Horatio tries to talk to the ghost, what happens?
Answer: Horatio requests the ghost to speak and answer his question through the cock crows and the ghost vanishes.
Q14: About whose invasion King Claudius is worried about?
Answer: Claudius talks about the invasion of young Fortinbras in Denmark.
Q15: What are the names of the courtiers that Claudius appoints as ambassadors to convey his message to Norway?
Answer: Cornelius and Voltimand
Q16: What is the name of Hamlet’s lover?
Answer: Her name is Ophelia.
Q17: What is the name of Ophelia’s brother?
Answer: His name is Laertes.
Q18: What is the name of Ophelia’s father?
Answer: His name is Polonius who is also an important courtier of the King.
Q19: How Laertes describes the love of Hamlet to Ophelia?
Answer: Laertes considers Hamlet’s love as merely “fashion and a toy in blood”.
Q20: How Polonius describes his love of Hamlet for his daughter Ophelia?
Answer: Polonius considers Hamlet’s love as “springes to catch woodcocks” and as “brokers and mere implorators of unholy suits”.
Q21: What secrets are revealed by ghosts?
Answer: The Ghosts tells Hamlet about the murder and his mother’s frailty.
Q22: What T.S Eliot has to say about Hamlet’s madness?
Answer: According to Eliot, “Hamlet’s madness is less than madness and more than feigned.”.
Q23: Who calls Hamlet an “artistic failure”?
Answer: T.S Eliot says that ” so far from being Shakespeare’s masterpiece, the play is most certainly an artistic failure.”
Q24: How Eliot describes Hamlet?
Answer: Eliot calls it “Monalisa” of literature.
Q25: When the first Soliloquy happens in the book?
Answer: Act 1, Scene II, Lines 129-159
Q26: What is the most famous line that Hamlet utters in the first Soliloquy?
Answer: “Frailty thy name is a woman” because of his mother’s marriage to his uncle after his father’s death.
Q27: When the second Soliloquy appears?
Answer: Act 1, Scene v, Lines 91-112, after Hamlet’s meeting with the Ghost.
Q28: When the third Soliloquy appears in the book?
Answer: Act II, Scene II, Lines 543-601 and Hamlet blames himself for his delay to take action against his uncle.
Q29: When the fourth soliloquy appears in the book?
Answer: Act III, Scene I, Lines 56-89 and this consider the finest poetic passage and a masterpiece that reveals the universal fear of death.
Q30: When the fifth Soliloquy appears?
Answer: Act II, Scene II, Lines 379-390 and he wants to be cruel to his mother and wants to kill her.
Q31: When the Sixth Soliloquy appears?
Answer: Act III, Scene II, Lines 73-96
Q32: When did the Seventh and Last Soliloquies appear?
Answer: Act IV, Scene IV, Lines 32-66
Q33: Apart from Hamlet’s seven Soliloquies, what are other soliloquies?
Answer: There are three soliloquies of Claudius which throw light on his wicked nature but there is a mention of his alive conscious. Apart from it, there is also a soliloquy by Ophelia where she expresses her grief about Hamlet’s condition.
Q34: What does a Ghost symbolize?
Answer: Ghost is not a usual happening and it indicates some great disaster or calamity which is going to befall the state of Denmark.
Q35: What wish Hamlet reveals when he is near his death?
Answer: He reveals his wish that Fortinbras should be the successor to the Danish throne.
Q36: Who wants to die with Hamlet?
Answer: Horatio wants to die with Hamlet when Hamlet is about to die but Hamlet requests him that if he is his real friend he should live his life and tell the tragic story of Hamlet to the world.
Q37: How does queen Gertrude dies?
Answer: The queen takes the poisoned drink that is for Hamlet but instead of him, she drinks it.
Q38: How does Ophelia die?
Answer: It is reported that she slipped and fell into the water and drowned.
Q39: Who comes to Hamlet to tell him about King’s arrangement for a match?
Answer: Osric, a courtier comes to Hamlet to inform him about King’s arrangement for a fencing match between Hamlet and Laertes.
Q40: Who is the “smiling Villain” in the book?
Answer: Claudius
These are the important questions from Shakespeare‘s Hamlet.