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Shakespeare's Hamlet 1 Act 1
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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 2 The Setting
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What is the setting of Hamlet, and how does it contribute to the overall feel of the play?

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Shakespeare's Hamlet 3 To Thine Own Self
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What does the line "to thine own self be true" mean in the context of the play? And why do so many people use it as their senior yearbook quote? Pe...

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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

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some people think of this play as as a description [Hamlet as a baby]

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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

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up kind of thinking about things so much that you [Hamlet thinking of things]

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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

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case that like ghosts were reliable than any more than

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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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