【正确答案】正确答案：The play confronts us with two starkly conflicting moralities, two radically opposed views of the task which defines Hamlet"s role in the play: to be the avenger of his father"s death. On the one hand, Shakespeare presents his characters against an obviously Christian background, a background much more distinctively Christian than that of any of the other tragedies. The outlook of the characters has been conditioned by Christian teaching, and the play itself is based on an acceptance of the Catholic teaching on the after-life: the Ghost returns from Purgatory, for example. The world of Hamlet, then, is a Christian one, and the character views himself and the significance of his actions and beliefs against Christian teachings and practices. Hamlet embodies two incompatible moral systems, one Christian, the other pagan. He alters the commission: the English King is to put Rosencratz and Guildenstern to death, giving them no time to confess their sins or make their peace with God. He spontaneously accepts as a sacred duty the task of avenging his father, promising to make this his only occupation. Hamlet himself is in no doubt about this question, whatever doubts he may entertain about the Ghost"s "honesty". There is a sense in which Hamlet is at war: his kind of revenge would have been regarded by Shakespeare"s contemporaries as being covered by the rules of warfare. It is possible to explain these difficulties and the moral confusion surrounding the revenge theme by reminding ourselves that Shakespeare"s contemporaries seemed able to accommodate both Christian and pagan ideas of revenge side by side and find justification for each. Ophelia is in accordance with prescribed Christian ritual in relation to a woman in her circumstances. Claudius at prayer clearly believes in traditional Christian teaching on sin and repentance: without atoning for his crimes, he knows that he cannot earn forgiveness. His Christian alternative is to refrain from acting against Claudius and to live in patience, leaving vengeance to God.

【答案解析】解析：本题考查哈姆雷特人物形象塑造中基督教道德传统的影响，难度较大。基督教传统对哈姆雷特形象的影响是多方面的，尤其导致了其复仇的矛盾心理以及前后不一的行为。