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Crack open your copy of Hamlet, because it's time to discuss what happens during the course of Act I. Sadly, it has nothing to do with ham.
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Shakespeare's Hamlet 10 Hamlet's Revenge 92 Views
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Why does Hamlet take so long to serve revenge on his uncle Claudius? This is so obvious...because revenge is a dish best served cold . Duh.
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Shakespear's Hamlet A'la shmoop This has been
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the subject of lots of critical discussion Some people think
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of it as a symptom of his in maturity So
- 00:22
some people think of this play as as a description [Hamlet as a baby]
- 00:25
of what happens when you're too much in your head
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as a lot of young people are right So you
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go through adolescence you withdraw into yourself andi you end
- 00:32
up kind of thinking about things so much that you [Hamlet thinking of things]
- 00:34
become unable to actually act in the outside world Another
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thing that people point out is just that his information
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is itself in quite right Thiss ghost comes to him [Ghost appears beside Hamlet]
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but that's even then right It's not it's not the
- 00:48
case that like ghosts were reliable than any more than
- 00:51
they are now Right Like if you go sort of
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company they would be pretty compelled by it because i've
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never seen it goes before But i would also be
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like um like logic tells me this is probably not [Woman talking to ghost]
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riel Keep in mind this is also you know they're
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living in this christian worlds like ghosts are kind of
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a pagan have a megan residents that's not to be
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trusted So right So from the outside Hamlet is like
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um if that is my dad like why is he
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trying to manipulate me into doing this And how do [Hamlet questioning the ghost]
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i know it's really my dad what team And so
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the information he's working on is always incomplete and that's
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why he devises the mouse trap play try to catch
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claudius in the act but even that that's another example
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of really circumstantial evidence right he's basing it again off
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of a fiction So at every point he's trying to [Claudisu pours drink over Hamlet sleeping]
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make decisions based on incomplete information based on fictions and reflections and ghosts not the thing itself... [Question appears]
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