Question

[First Player:] And never did the Cyclops’ hammers fall On Mars’s armour, forg’d for proof eterne, With less remorse than Pyrrhus’ bleeding sword Now falls on Priam. –Hamlet, William Shakespeare In mythology, the Cyclops are giants who make armor for Mars, the god of war. What does the allusion in this passage suggest about Pyrrhus? He is savage and cruel. He is as large as a giant. He killed Priam with a hammer. He acts like the god of war.

Answer 1

The allusion in the above passage suggests about Pyrrhus that:

He is savage and cruel.

Pyrrhus was the son of Greek hero Achilles. He came to Troy to take avenge for his father's death after the end of the Trojan War. He took the avenge by killing the King of Troy, Priam after which he hid along with the Greek heroes in the Trojan Horse.