FOR THOSE WHO READ "HAMLET", please help me with this quote |
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 Jan 6 2009, 08:37 PM
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 i call it love<333  Group: Member Posts: 134 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 448,479  |
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 |
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Jan 6 2009, 08:43 PM
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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.
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Jan 6 2009, 08:56 PM
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 Amberific. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,913 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,772 |
^ 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).
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Jan 10 2009, 02:05 AM
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 Sing to Me Group: Member Posts: 1,825 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 10,808 |
Omg. I totally don't remember that.
I understand the "To be or not to be" quote. |
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