FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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death and lost love
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death and religion
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religion and lost love
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regret and sickness
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Detailed explanation-1: -Gertrude then agrees to speak with Ophelia. Ophelia enters singing fragments of songs about chaos, death, and unrequited love.
Detailed explanation-2: -Ophelia enters singing about death and betrayal. After Ophelia has gone, Claudius agonizes over her madness and over the stir created by the return of an angry Laertes.
Detailed explanation-3: -When Ophelia believes Hamlet to be mad, she laments: “Now see that noble and most sovereign reason/Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh” (Hamlet, Act 3 Scene 1). Ophelia plays the lute in a 1970 RSC production of Hamlet. [Sings] “By Gis and by Saint Charity, Alack, and fie for shame!
Detailed explanation-4: -In her first song, Ophelia addresses her mourning and a recent loss, singing, “He is dead and gone, lady, / He is dead and gone, / At his head a grass-green turf, / At his heels a stone” (IV. v. 29-32). This string of words paints a clear image of a dead man and of Polonius because of his recent death.
Detailed explanation-5: -Gertrude politely asks Ophelia what her song means, but Ophelia urges the queen to listen as she continues singing about a man who is “dead and gone.” Ophelia continues singing on and on about a man shrouded, entombed, and covered in “sweet flowers” even as Gertrude asks her to stop.