LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Macbeth
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Hamlet
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The Tempest
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Julius Caesar
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Detailed explanation-1: -Brevity is the soul of wit comes from the play Hamlet, written by English poet William Shakespeare around 1603. Polonius says it in act 2, scene 2. Simply put, brevity is the soul of wit means that clever people can express intelligent things using very few words.
Detailed explanation-2: -Polonius is the character of the play Hamlet whose words and speeches cannot be called short. He is almost always verbose and overly detailed, repeating his words. Consequently, his phrase “brevity is the soul of wit” contradicts his actions.
Detailed explanation-3: -Polonius speaks these lines. He’s talking to the king and Queen, Claudius and Gertrude. (Claudius, who murdered Hamlet’s father, is now the King of Denmark, married to Hamlet’s mother.)
Detailed explanation-4: -“Brevity is the soul of wit.” “I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.” “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”
Detailed explanation-5: -What is humorously ironic about Polonius saying, “Brevity is the soul of wit"? It is because he keeps saying how he’s going to be brief but he keeps saying so much he loses the point which is, Hamlet is crazy in love.