WAEC - Literature In English (2008 - No. 38)

From the novel; Hamlet
From the novel; Hamlet
From the novel; Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question

Thrift, thrift,....! the funeral baked meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.
Would I had seen that day,.....!
My father! _ Me thinks I see my father.
(Act 1, Scene Two, Lines 180-184)

The other character who comes on the scene after this is
the queen
Horatio
Polonius
the king

Explanation

In this extract from Hamlet, Hamlet is reflecting on his father's death and his mother's quick remarriage to his uncle, Claudius. After this soliloquy, Horatio enters. Horatio is Hamlet's close friend, and he comes on the scene to speak with Hamlet.

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