FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Villain
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Hero
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Murderer
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King
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Detailed explanation-1: -“One may smile, and smile, and be a villain; at least I’m sure it may be so in Denmark.”
Detailed explanation-2: -TowARD the end of the first act of Hamlet, immediately after the Ghost has gone, we have the following words from the mouth of Hamlet: 0 villain, villain, smiling, damned villain! My tables, -meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain; At least I’m sure it may be so in Denmark: [ Writing.
Detailed explanation-3: -Shakespeare. A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
Detailed explanation-4: -To be “cruel to be kind” is to cause someone pain for his or her own good. The phrase is used by Hamlet after he has berated his mother for her infidelity to the memory of her deceased husband.