Question

please help im trying to pass a class and this question is one i need to get right
The use of the phrase "ministering angel" can be traced to the lines in this passage from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Based on the context, what is the most likely meaning of the phrase "ministering angel" as it is used here?

a moralizing priest

a virgin

a kind person

a mentor

Answer 1

Hamlet
by William Shakespeare (excerpt)

LAERTES: Lay her i' the earth:
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring!—I tell thee, churlish priest,
A ministering angel shall my sister be,
When thou liest howling.