FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Poloius
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Laertes
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Hamlet
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Claudes
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Detailed explanation-1: -Get thee to a nunnery! Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest but yet I could accuse myself of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?” A nunnery means convent (used mockingly to refer to brothel). Brothel, is a house where men can visit prostitutes. So, he refers to Ophelia, who is his lover, as a prostitutes; a sinful woman.
Detailed explanation-3: -Words from the play Hamlet, by William Shakespeare; the advice Hamlet gives to Ophelia when he bids her live a life of celibacy.
Detailed explanation-4: -In return, He insults Ophelia for being a woman; “Get thee to a nunnery. Why, wouldst thou be a breeder / of sinners.” (3, 1, 121-122) Hamlet believes that all women sin and that they cheat on men. Hamlet tells Ophelia to go to the nunnery, in order to protect her chastity and become more loyal to men.
Detailed explanation-5: -’To be, or not to be: that is the question’. Arguably the most famous quotation in the whole of Hamlet, this line begins one of Hamlet’s darkest and most philosophical soliloquies.