Question

Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet. Hamlet: O God, your only jig-maker. What should a man do but be merry? for, look you, how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within’s two hours. Ophelia: Nay, ’tis twice two months, my lord. Hamlet: So long? Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I’ll have a suit of sables. O heavens! die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there’s hope a great man’s memory may outlive his life half a year; but, by ’r lady, he must build churches then, or else shall he suffer not thinking on, with the hobby-horse, whose epitaph is, ‘For, O! for, O! the hobby-horse is forgot.’ How does the excerpt exemplify Elizabethan drama?
a. by exploring human emotionsb. by referencing Biblical conceptsc. by addressing political policiesd. by praising the lives of saints

Answer 1

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The answer is A: by exploring human emotions

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Answer 2

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The correct answer to the question: How does the excerpt exemplify Elizabethan drama?, would be, A: by exploring human emotions.

Explanation:

"The Tragedy of Hamlet", or simply "Hamlet", is a play that was written by author William Shakespeare and it is one of his best known works. Written between 1599 and 1602, "Hamlet" narrates the story of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, whose life is turned upside down when his father is murdered and his mother marries his own uncle. If thought about it, the entire play of "Hamlet" is the every examplification of human emotions, how they play a role in what a person does, what he says and how he acts. Hamlet is basically driven by these very human emotions and he displays them often, to the point that people think he has gone insane with grief. But nowhere is this more clearly displayed than in this excerpt where Hamlet´s words are charged with how overcome he is by his own emotions and feelings regarding the death of his own father, and the time it took his mother to stop grieving him and marrying someone else. THis is why the answer here is A.