FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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“O, most wicked speed, to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”
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“How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world!”
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“But two months dead ____ / So excellent a king ____ “
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“But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which line from Hamlet’s soliloquy in Scene 2 expresses the cause of the conflict he is feeling? “O, most wicked speed, to post / With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!” he distrusts Hamlet’s constancy.
Detailed explanation-2: -Shakespeare uses this dramatic convention to introduce one of them in Hamlet to the audience. A summary of the conflict in act 1, scene 2, is that King Claudius plans to marry Hamlet’s mother. He recently widowed her by murdering her husband and Hamlet’s father.
Detailed explanation-3: -The primary function of the soliloquy is to reveal to the audience Hamlet’s profound melancholia and the reasons for his despair. In a disjointed outpouring of disgust, anger, sorrow, and grief, Hamlet explains that, without exception, everything in his world is either futile or contemptible.
Detailed explanation-4: -At this point in the soliloquy Hamlet starts doubting himself. He questions his ability to seek revenge, and expresses his fears of the dangers he would put himself in, which ultimately expresses his fear of death. He recognizes his inability of carry out any consequential action and calls himself a coward.
Detailed explanation-5: -In the end of Act II, Hamlet reveals his plan for testing Claudius’s guilt. Why would Shakespeare make him use a thearitical performace for this purpose? Shakespeare believes that an acting scene may create emotion to the audience, therefore Claudius may react in a way that proves it was him.