Answer: In this excerpt, Hamlet chracterizes his mother as b) fickle.
Explanation: In Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet</em>, Gertrude is Prince Hamlet's mother and the Queen of Denmark. After King Hamlet dies, Gertrude decides to marry his brother, Claudius. Therefore,<u> in this excerpt from the play, Hamlet criticizes his mother for marrying Claudius so hastily after his father's death and he even describes her as a "weak" woman for doing it</u>. Hamlet questions Gertrude's commitment to his father and, in that sense, <u>he characterizes her as fickle, that is to say as a person who changes her feelings too suddenly</u>, which makes her unable to be loyal.
Margaret’s message to John II in her letter of 28 October 1470 was how was she going in the country, that she had sold some 'dysshes, plateres, and sawceres' and that she send the money to him. She advised him to take into account how he spent the money. She encouraged him to be brave. She said that she thanked God for how God guided his way, but that he must take care. And she finished her letter with the following phrase:
'God make here a good wooman' (hoping that God helped her and made of her a good person)
The answer is (D) <span>anything beyond the specific words of a literary work that may be relevant to understanding the meaning of a text.</span>
