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What do Claudius and Gertrude ask Hamlet to do in Act I, Scene Il of Shakespeare's play Hamlet?

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They told Hamlet to not return to his school in Wittenberg but to remain with them as he's heir to the throne.

Step-by-step explanation:

William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" revolves around the story of a young prince Hamlet desiring to avenge the death of his father, King Hamlet. The play focuses on themes of good vs. evil, power, loyalty, love, marriage, appearance and reality, insanity, etc.

In Act I scene, Claudius, reveals he had married his brother's wife, the dead king Hamlet's wife, Gertrude. Then, he asked Hamlet, the young, grieving prince to stop grieving for his late father, telling him

"You are the most immediate to our throne,...

For your intent

In going back to school in Wittenberg,

It is most retrograde to our desire.

And we beseech you, bend you to remain

Here in the cheer and comfort of our eye,

Our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son."

The newly married couple wants Hamlet to remain in the kingdom and not go to his Wittenberg school.

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