Question
Read the excerpt from Hamlet.
Hamlet: Follow him, friends: we’ll hear a play to-morrow. [Exit POLONIUS, with all the Players but the First.] Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the Murder of Gonzago?
First Player: Ay, my lord.
Hamlet: We’ll ha ’t to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert in ’t, could you not?
First Player: Ay, my lord.
To make the First Player a complex character, Shakespeare would need to make him
A: represent a single idea.
B: have few emotions.
C: change over time.
D: have a simple personality.
Hamlet: Follow him, friends: we’ll hear a play to-morrow. [Exit POLONIUS, with all the Players but the First.] Dost thou hear me, old friend; can you play the Murder of Gonzago?
First Player: Ay, my lord.
Hamlet: We’ll ha ’t to-morrow night. You could, for a need, study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert in ’t, could you not?
First Player: Ay, my lord.
To make the First Player a complex character, Shakespeare would need to make him
A: represent a single idea.
B: have few emotions.
C: change over time.
D: have a simple personality.
Answers
GPT-4o mini
To make the First Player a complex character, Shakespeare would need to make him
**C: change over time.**
A complex character typically exhibits development or transformation throughout a narrative, showing depth and a range of emotions or experiences.
**C: change over time.**
A complex character typically exhibits development or transformation throughout a narrative, showing depth and a range of emotions or experiences.