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Which theme is reinforced in the excerpt below from Shakespeare's Hamlet?

Rightly to be great
Is not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw
When honor's at the stake. How stand I, then,
That have a father kill'd, a mother stain'd,
Excitements of my reason and my blood,
And let all sleep?

A.
appearance versus reality
B.
complexity of action
C.
impossibility of certainty
D.
mystery of death

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Answer:

B

Step-by-step explanation:

complexity of action

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The reinforced theme in the excerpt given from Shakespeare's Hamlet is complexity of action.

Answer: Option B

Step-by-step explanation:

This given phrase is taken from the soliloquy from Act 4 Scene 4 of Hamlet. After Hamlet notices that Fortinbras’ army is crossing Denmark, he begins to think about people losing their lives just for fighting over a small and irrelevant piece of land.

At the same time, since his father has been killed, he has a reason to fight them. While he thinks, he is put in a dilemma about choice of action, eventually leading to him choosing the idea of revenge slowly which overpowers him. Although he arrives at a conclusion, the dilemma can be equated with complexity of action.

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