Question

Read the passage from Act V of Hamlet.

Hamlet: To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?

Horatio: ’Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.

One purpose of Horatio’s line is to further the development of which theme?

You can never ask too many questions.
Too much questioning is dangerous.
It is important to question everything.
Be cautious of anyone who questions you.

Answer 1

Too much questioning is dangerous.

Horatio’s remark—“’Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.”—cautions against dwelling on Hamlet’s morbid speculation. He warns that probing the matter further is excessive, reinforcing the play’s theme that obsessive over-questioning or over-analysis can be harmful.