Question

Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet. Rosencrantz: To visit you, my lord; no other occasion. Hamlet: Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, come, deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak. Guildenstern: What should we say, my lord? What is the effect of Hamlet’s use of metaphors in this excerpt?
It establishes that Hamlet is poverty-stricken.
It establishes that Hamlet dislikes his friends.
It establishes that Hamlet suffers hardships.
It establishes that Hamlet has little gratitude.

Answer 1

It establishes that Hamlet suffers hardships.

Answer 2

The effect of Hamlet’s use of metaphors in the above excerpt is:

It establishes that Hamlet suffers hardships.

In Act II Scene II of the play “Hamlet,” Hamlet meets two of his friends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. They have been called by Gertrude and Claudius to help Hamlet come out of his state of mental stress. Hamlet discloses his state of melancholy in which he has lost all the joys of his life and how his life seems worthless to him.