Question

(45 POINTS ANSWER QUICK!!!) From "Hamlet," Act 2

Is it not monstrous that this player here,
But in a fiction, in a dream of passion,
Could force his soul so to his own conceit
That from her working all his visage wanned,
Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect,
A broken voice, and his whole function suiting
With forms to his conceit? And all for nothing—
For Hecuba!
What’s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba
That he should weep for her? What would he do
Had he the motive and the cue for passion
That I have? He would drown the stage with tears
And cleave the general ear with horrid speech,
Make mad the guilty and appall the free,



In this scene, Hamlet considers the performance of an actor, and reaches the conclusion that
A) he is really only an actor himself.
B) he is a better actor than the actor.
C) the actor's performance is unconvincing.
D) he has greater cause to be upset than the actor.

Answer 1

The answer is D, because Hamlet is wondering why Hecuba is so important to the actor that he should weep for her.

Answer 2

D) he has greater cause to be upset than the actor.

Step-by-step explanation:

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hecuba is well known for the speech given by the prince of Denmark, Hamlet, when he contemplates the passion with which an actor reacts in a monologue in which Hecuba reacts to the death of her husband, Priam. At that moment Hamlet gets annoyed with the actor and wondering why Hecuba is so important to make him cry.