Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Rosencrantz:Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.Claudius:Arm you, I pray you, to this speedy voyage; For we will fetters put upon this fear, Which now goes too free-footed.Rosencrantz and Guildenstern:We will haste us.

Claudius says they will “put fetters upon this fear,” meaning they will restrain or control Hamlet’s troubling behavior. “Fetters” are chains used to bind someone, so the word creates an image of Hamlet being physically restrained. The other choices do not carry the same image of confinement.

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