FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Hamlet
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Horatio
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Polonius
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Gertrude
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet: Am I not i’ the right, old Jephthah? Polonius : If you call me Jephthah, my lord, I have a daughter that I love passing well. In the excerpt, Hamlet calls Polonius Jephthah, after the priest in the Old Testament who sacrifices his daughter to God.
Detailed explanation-2: -Jephthah is a figure from the Bible who made a vow that if God would help him defeat the Ammonites, he would make a sacrifice of the first thing he saw when he returned home. He was victorious, but the first thing he saw was his daughter. He kept his vow and sacrificed her.
Detailed explanation-3: -Hamlet then taunts Polonius/Corambis, 2 calling the old man “Jephthah” and referring to his “one faire daughter and no more, the which he loued passing well” (2.2.
Detailed explanation-4: -Why does Polonius consider it significant that Hamlet brings Jephthah and his daughter? Is he correct? He believes Hamlet is talking about Ophelia. Really foreshadowing, but unknowingly.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hamlet calls Polonius Jephthah to show that Polonius is interfering in Hamlets relationship with Ophelia.