Read the excerpt from hamlet, act i, scene ii. horatio: my lord, i came to see your father’s funeral. hamlet: i pray thee, do not mock me, fellow-student; i think it was to see my mother’s wedding. horatio: indeed, my lord, it follow’d hard upon. hamlet: thrift, thrift, horatio! the funeral bak’d meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. in the excerpt, shakespeare characterizes hamlet as

In this excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene II, we see that Shakespeare characterizes Hamlet as B) Disgusted that Gertrude and Claudius married so quickly.

He is not amused that he was able to attend his own mother's wedding, and neither is he grateful that his mother did not have to remain a widow for long. In fact, his mother's remarriage shatters Hamlet opinion of women as he will later claim "Frailty, thy name is woman".

Hamlet laments his father's death and would even contemplate suicide if it was not a sin. He is disgusted with this quick marriage because he remembers how his mother seemed to love his father and now she has married his father's brother in less than two months after the king's death. This disgust is mentioned through the allusion to the banquet: the leftovers from the funeral feast would have been convenient for the wedding dinner.

The correct option is (B) Disgusted that Gertrude and Claudius got married so quickly.  

Further Explanation:

Hamlet was written by William Shakespeare between 1599 and 1601 and it is considered as the longest play by Shakespeare and is set in Denmark. The plot of the play depicts lead character ‘Prince Hamlet’ and his revenge against his uncle, ‘Claudius’ who murdered Hamlet’s father and the reason behind this was that Claudius wanted to seize the throne of Hamlet’s father and also wanted to marry Hamlet’s mother. Hamlet is considered as one of the most influential and powerful works by Shakespeare in the world of literature and has been adopted by many other writers time and again.  

The above excerpt is from Hamlet and is from the scene in which Hamlet is angry and is feeling disgusted that his mother, Gertrude, and Claudius got married to each other just after Hamlet’s father’s death.  

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: Hamlet

Subject: English

Keywords: Hamlet, William Shakespeare, Gertrude, Claudius, Influential, Reason, Marry, Disgusted, Adapted, Married.