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WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2010 (Objective)

Question 1 Report

Read the extract and answer the question

Do not forget: this visitation
Is but to what thy almost blunted purpose
But, look, amazement as thy mother sits:
O, step between her and her fighting soul:
(Act 111, scene four, lines 107 -110)

The speech is made in the
Answer Details
The speech is made in the Queen's closet. In the lines preceding the given extract, Hamlet has just seen his father's ghost and is following it to speak with him, and in the lines following the extract, Hamlet and his mother are discussing his behavior. Therefore, it can be inferred that Hamlet is in his mother's chambers or closet, making the speech to himself or to the ghost.
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