FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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to make her agree to leave Claudius
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to convince her he is not mad
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to let her know how much his father suffered
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to force her to admit her treachery
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is Hamlet’s intention in confronting his mother and speaking “daggers” to her? loyalty to the king.
Detailed explanation-2: -What is Hamlet trying to do in his confrontation with his mother? It is possible that he wants her to confirm her knowledge of Claudius’s crime, to provide further proof of his guilt. Or it may be that Hamlet wants to know whether she was complicit in the crime.
Detailed explanation-3: -Utter piercing words of contempt. Hamlet certainly does “speak daggers” in 3.4.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet says he will go to her in a moment and asks for a moment alone. He steels himself to speak to his mother, resolving to be brutally honest with her but not to lose control of himself: “I will speak daggers to her, but use none” (III.ii.366).
Detailed explanation-5: -His uncle Claudius took over the throne and married Hamlet’s mother Gertrude. One day a ghost, Hamlet’s dead father, told him how Claudius killed him by putting poison into his ear. Hamlet seeks revenge for his dead father and wants to kill Claudius for his crime.…