Hamlet was role playing throughout the whole play and acted crazy all the time so that he could revenge for his father's death.
Hamlet thinks that when ultimately he kills the King Claudius, nobody else will kill him as everyone believed that it was the result of the case of insanity that was brought in notice by his father's death.
Moreover, he waited for a little time to plan and postpone his promises that he had made with the ghosts and tries to hide his true feelings because he didn't want anyone to know about his real feelings i.e. to plan his uncle's death.
The answer is D. Cheerless
The figurative language that
exists within this excerpt can be identified with the phrases “recesses … to
which he never came,” “his austerity could never blight,” and “keep the fire of
my nature continually low,” provide readers with a feeling of loneliness,
suppression, and sadness. A person who felt this way or spoke these
things would most likely be without happiness and without cheer—or cheerless.
Rainsford, a big game hunter, is traveling to the Amazon by boat. He falls overboard and finds himself stranded on Ship Trap Island. Rainsford finds a large home where Ivan, a servant, and General Zaroff, a Russian aristocrat, live. They take Rainsford in. However, he soon learns that to leave, he must win a game where he is the hunted. Rainsford must survive for three days. He sets three traps to outwit the general, Ivan, and his bloodthirsty hounds. Cornered, Rainsford jumps off a cliff, into the sea. He survives the fall and awaits for Zaroff in his house. The two men duel when Rainsford ambushes Zaroff. Zaroff was killed and fed to the hounds. In the end, Rainsford exclaimed how he has never slept more soundly in his life.
Word Count: 130
The mood is the atmosphere of the story, and the tone is the author's attitude towards the topic. We can identify both by looking at the setting, characters, details, and word choices.
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