Question 1 (100 points) Question 1 Unsaved Read the following excerpt from Hamlet: Act II, scene 2 GUILDENSTERN Prison, my lord? HAMLET Denmark’s a prison. ROSENCRANTZ Then is the world one. HAMLET A goodly one, in which there are many confines, wards, and dungeons, Denmark being one o' th' worst. ROSENCRANTZ We think not so, my lord. HAMLET Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. To me it is a prison. ROSENCRANTZ Why then, your ambition makes it one. 'Tis too narrow for your mind. Based on this passage from Hamlet, how would you describe Hamlet's personality/character at this moment in the play? Question 1 options: He is excited for what is coming next He is scared of the King's revenge He is in love but she doesn't love him back He feels trapped by his current situation Save

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n the opening of the play, Hamlet is depressed and thinks too much about what he needs to do. He complains about the fact that he has been chosen "to set it right". He broods about his father's death, his mother's quick marriage and the ghost's revelation that his dad was murdered. He thinks! He talks! He devises the whole play within a play thing to get proof; but when he has the proof, he still cannot kill the king. (Because he's praying. Whatever--