Hamlet, Part 5: Characteristics of Elizabethan Drama
Question 6 • CA-English Language Arts 12 A
Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.Rosencrantz:The cease of majesty Dies not alone, but, like a gulf doth draw What’s near it with it; it is a massy wheel, Fix’d on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis’d and adjoin’d; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
Answer
T
The lives of saints are celebrated.
P
Political power is discussed.
R
Rosencrantz tells a Biblical story.
R
Rosencrantz recalls the details of his life.
Explanation
Rosencrantz describes the king’s majesty as a huge wheel whose fall pulls down many smaller things connected to it. He is explaining how the king’s political power and position affect others, so the excerpt discusses political power. It is not a Biblical story or a recollection of Rosencrantz’s life.
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