What does Hamlet mean in the quote below?
"Mother, for love of grace,
Lay not that flattering unction to your soul
That not your trespass but my madness speaks."
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Question #3
Which animal does Hamlet compare Rosencrantz to?
Question #19
Look where Hamlet observes that the Fortinbras's soldiers "fight for a plot / Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause."
What does "plot" mean in this context?
Question #10
Why does Laertes say Claudius's death is just?
Question #13
What does Polonius mean in the quote below?
"But breathe his faults so quaintly
That they may seem the taints of liberty,
The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
A savageness in unreclaimed blood,
Of general assault."
Question #2
What does Polonius give Ophelia to hold during her encounter with Hamlet?
Question #18
Look where Guildenstern says that Hamlet answered their questions "with much forcing of his disposition."
What does "disposition" mean in this context?
Question #4
Why does Claudius refrain from openly punishing Hamlet for murder?
Question #20
Look where Claudius worries about his scheme: "If this should fall, / And that our drift look through our bad performance. / 'Twere better not assay'd."
What does "drift" mean in this context?