Question

the tragedy of hamlet, prince of denmark
act i. scene ii.
king hamlet’s brother, claudius, is now king of denmark. he has married queen gertrude, the former king’s wife and prince hamlet’s mother. in a speech to the royal court, king claudius defends his decision to marry his former sister - in - law.
a room of state in the castle.
enter king claudius, queen gertrude, hamlet, polonius, laertes, voltimand, cornelius, lords, and attendants.
claudius: though yet of hamlet our dear brother’s death
the memory be green, and that it us befitted
to bear our hearts in grief and our whole kingdom (5)
to be contracted in one brow of woe,
yet so far hath discretion fought with nature
that we with wisest sorrow think on him.
together with remembrance of ourselves.
therefore our sometime sister, now our queen, (10)
the imperial jointress of this war - like state,
have we, as ’twere with a defeated joy,
possess it merely. that it should come to this!
by evaluating the dramatic conventions in the excerpt, the reader can conclude that hamlet will
face both conflict and tragedy but will keep a sense of humor.
face tragedy but will pull through and resolve his conflicts.
be involved in conflict but the story will have a happy ending.
become a tragic hero and the story will have an unhappy ending.

Explanation:

"The Tragedy of Hamlet" is a tragedy. In tragedies, the protagonist (Hamlet) is a tragic hero who faces conflicts (like his uncle's usurpation, his mother's hasty marriage) and the story typically ends unhappily. The other options are inconsistent with tragic conventions: Hamlet doesn't resolve conflicts happily, the story isn't happy - ending, and while he has humor, the core of the tragedy is his downfall and the unhappy conclusion.

Answer:

become a tragic hero and the story will have an unhappy ending.