Answers TX-English IV Hamlet, Part 5: Characteristics of Elizabethan DramaQuestion 15

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Hamlet, Part 5: Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama

Question 15 • TX-English IV

What line from Act III of Hamlet supports the conclusion that Claudius fears his own fate?

Answer

A

And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect.

B

What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?

C

Bow, stubborn knees; and heart with strings of steel Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.

D

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

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