FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Claudius
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Ophelia
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Hamlet
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Gertrude
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet’s mother, Queen Gertrude says this in Act 5, scene 1 of Hamlet at Ophelia’s funeral. Ophelia is a young noblewoman of Denmark in the play-the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and Hamlet’s potential wife-who commits suicide. QUEEN GERTRUDE: Sweets to the sweet: farewell!
Detailed explanation-2: -Sweets to the sweet. Spoken as Queen Gertrude bids farewell to Ophelia.
Detailed explanation-3: -Meanwhile, Ophelia’s corpse has been lowered into the grave, and the Queen steps forward to strew flowers, saying “Sweets to the sweet: farewell! / I hoped thou shouldst have been my Hamlet’s wife” (5.1. 243-244).
Detailed explanation-4: -“To thine own self be true.” “Though this be madness, yet there is method in ‘t.” “Brevity is the soul of wit.” “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Detailed explanation-5: -He begs her to confess her guilt to him and to heaven. At the very least, he begs her, don’t sleep with Claudius or let him “go paddling in your neck with his damned fingers.” He asks if she knows that Claudius is sending him to England; she had forgotten.