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CO0KiE
The directions say: "discuss why it applies to the character:"

"FRAILTY, THE NAME IS WOMAN" ( queen gertrude )

can someone please help me with it???
it's for my world lit honors class
tokyo-rose
Hamlet's calling his mother weak for remarrying so quickly (approximately two months after King Hamlet's death), and then sleeping with Claudius all the time.
hi-C
^ Right; it's all about her lack of loyalty, to her husband and her son. By remarrying so quickly, she not only showed disloyalty to her husband but to her son (marrying Claudius made him king instead of Hamlet).
Comptine
Omg. I totally don't remember that.

I understand the "To be or not to be" quote.
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