FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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a nunnery
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a hospital
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a tavern
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an inn
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Detailed explanation-1: -In this part of Act 3 Scene 1, Ophelia goes to return the gifts Hamlet gave to her in the past. He confuses her with mixed messages. 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.
Detailed explanation-2: -He tells her that the only way she will be able to protect herself from her female nature – the fickleness and betrayal that he attributes to women – would be to lock herself away in a nunnery where she will not have any contact with men and therefore be unable to betray them.
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: -He offers to “lie” in Ophelia’s “lap, ” and when she refuses, he assures her he meant only to rest his head there.