FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Hamlet
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Laertes
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Gertrude
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Guildenstern
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet declared his love for Ophelia by saying, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not with all their quantity of love make up my sum. (5.1)” This quote expresses Hamlet’s love perfectly by saying how much he truly loves her.
Detailed explanation-2: -’forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum. ‘ (hamlet, shakespeare)
Detailed explanation-3: -The phrase ‘ .. forty thousand brothers’ illustrates a figure of speech called hyperbole.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Nunnery Scene One moment he says ‘I did love you once’, the next ‘I loved you not’. He goes on to insult Ophelia and tells her to go to a nunnery. He tells her that this will be the best place for her and, by being a nun, Ophelia won’t have children and produce wicked men like his uncle.
Detailed explanation-5: -In addition, Hamlet tells Ophelia, “I did love you once” (3.1. 117). He professes his love for Ophelia again to Laertes, Gertrude, and Claudius after Ophelia has died, saying, “I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers / Could not with all their quantity of love / Make up my sum” (5.1.