FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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He takes no responsibility for their deaths.
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He feels they deserve their fates for taking the king’s commission.
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He cannot be sure the orders will be carried out.
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He has much darker deeds on his conscience.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why does Hamlet say that the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern “are not near [his] conscience"? He takes no responsibility for their deaths. He feels they deserve their fates for taking the king’s commission.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why does Hamlet say in Scene 2 that the deaths of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern “are not near my conscience"? He feels they deserve their fates for taking the king’s commission.
Detailed explanation-3: -He tells Horatio that he has no sympathy for Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who betrayed him and catered to Claudius, but that he feels sorry for having behaved with such hostility toward Laertes.
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet Outsmarts Claudius Hamlet says, ‘’They are not near my conscience. Their defeat does by their own insinuation grow. ‘’ He does not feel bad about orchestrating the death of his old school friends because recently they have been untrustworthy and more on Claudius’s side than his.
Detailed explanation-5: -When their ship is attacked by pirates, Hamlet returns to Denmark, leaving Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to die; he comments in Act V, Scene 2 that “They are not near my conscience; their defeat / Does by their own insinuation grow.” Ambassadors returning later report that “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead."