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There are several little rehearsals of actions before the major performances, such as Polonius spying on Hamlet and Ophelia as a prelude to the later scene in Gertrude’s room, and Hamlet rehearsing the players for their evening performance as prelude to the court performance. Can Hamlet’s impulse to kill Claudius as he prays be seen as a prelude to his killing Polonius? In each prelude, the concerns of the characters, and the language in which they express these concerns, prevent serious consequences. Explain how the circumstances in the major performances act upon the characters to produce violently different language and dire results.

Answer 1

It is not only the impossible work which is laid upon Hamlet, nor his capability to execute the entrusted duty, nor his flaw in his character which accounts for his failure but also external difficulties to a certain extent account for it. He kills Polonius inadvertently and gives a chance to Claudius, his antagonist to conceive plans against him.