Which theme is reinforced in the excerpt below from shakespeare's hamlet rightly to be great is not to stir without great arguement, but greatly to fin quarrel in a straw when honors at the stake. how stand i, then, that have a father kill'd, a mother strain'd, excitements of my reason and my blood and let all sleep[? ] options: a. appearance versus reality b. complexity of action c. impossibility of certainty d. mystery of death

The theme that is reinforced in the excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet is letter B: the complexity of action.

This soliloquy refers to the eaner feelings of Hamlet of taking revenge.

This passage is considered a turning point for Hamlet: he is watching that lots of men will die for fighting for a piece of territory while he that has a lot of reason to fight (because he has a father killed and a mother stained) does nothing at all so that he decides to take revenge.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”