Read the excerpt from hamlet, act i, scene ii.[hamlet: ] must i remember? why, she would hang on him, as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on; and yet, within a month, let me not think on ’t: frailty, thy name is woman! a little month; or ere those shoes were old with which she follow’d my poor father’s body, like niobe, all tears; why she, even she,— o god! a beast, that wants discourse of reason, would have mourn’d longer,—married with mine uncle, my father’s brother, but no more like my father than i to hercules . . in this excerpt, hamlet characterizes his mother as (a)eager. (b)fickle. (c)loyal. (d)sickly.

But this, but you – small, pitiful and twiggy – you put me down with wine, you blinded me. come back, odysseus, and i'll treat you well, praying the god of earthquake to befriend you – his son i am, for he by his avowal fathered me, and, if he will, he may heal me of this black wound – he and no other of all the happy gods or mortal men.' few words i shouted in reply to him: 'if i could take your life i would and take your time away, and hurl you down to hell! the god of earthquake could not heal you there! ' at this he stretched his hands out in his darkness toward the sky of stars, and prayed poseidon: 'o hear me, lord, blue girdler of the islands, if i am thine indeed, and thou art father: grant that odysseus, raider of cities, never see his home -the odyssey, homer what motivates cyclops to ask poseidon to interfere with odysseus's journey home?