FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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It’s a wonderful garden.
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It’s a great but a little sad garden.
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It’s a sad and dirty garden
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It’s a happy and clean garden
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet wishes that God didn’t have a rule against suicide. He sees the whole world as “an unweeded garden.” The rest of the soliloquy is about what is agonizing to him: his mother’s marriage.
Detailed explanation-2: -Finally, the soliloquy creates an atmosphere of sadness, hatred and anger because Hamlet is grieving his father’s death but is also angry at his mother for marrying his uncle. He is clearly not satisfied with the world and calls it “an unweeded garden” (1.2. 135) where all the evil things flourish.
Detailed explanation-3: -In this metaphor, Hamlet compares the world to a garden in which weeds have taken over and begun to multiply. In this double metaphor, Polonius calls Ophelia a baby, suggesting that she is naïve for believing that Hamlet’s affections (“tenders”) for her are true when in fact they are like counterfeit silver coins.
Detailed explanation-4: -To the protagonist, reality is “an unweeded garden / That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely” (I.ii.139-141). Gardens are a common symbol for life, but in Hamlet’s case, it represents his unraveling. Weeds, these intrusive thoughts, have taken over, and the garden has gone to seed.
Detailed explanation-5: -Right away, Hamlet compares his life with an unweeded garden, which was beautiful back in the days. Through this metaphor, Hamlet expresses deep dissatisfaction with his own life and his melancholy. He also reveals his thoughts about the state of Denmark that is filled with weed, being “rank and gross in nature.”