Which of the following descriptions best describes the character of Hamlet ?
Correct answer: A. Hamlet is depressed yet highly intelligent.
- A. Hamlet is depressed yet highly intelligent.
- B. Hamlet is naive and simple minded.
- C. Hamlet is spoiled and manipulative.
- D. Hamlet is intellectually passive and deeply frightened of his father's ghost.
Explanation
Hamlet is intensely intelligent and self-questioning, but his grief and hesitation produce a depressed or melancholy temperament. He is not intellectually passive or simply naive, as his soliloquies demonstrate.
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