hamlet said to be or not to be to himself.
hamlet said to be or not to be to himself.
who does hamlet say to be or not to be to?
himself
prince hamlet is being banished with rosencrantz and guildenstern from his country of denmark for the murder of polonius. before he leaves he takes one last look around his city and is confronted by a strange mist that tells him he should kill his uncle. hamlet then denies that he's a killer and gets onto the ship headed for england. that night hamlet has another encounter with the mist, the ship is then attacked by pirates. rosencrantz and guildenstern are killed, but hamlet manages to escape on a piece of the ship with a deceased sailor already on it. hamlet then wakes up in a strange bedroom and meets richard the third. richard tours hamlet through his city showing him that he is building libraries and schools for them. he then asks hamlet if he will help steal shakespeare's quill because he is the only one who can find shakespeare, in exchange richard will resurrect hamlet's father. richard then demonstrates this by bringing the sailor that hamlet was found with back to life. hamlet agrees to join richard's quest to find shakespeare. hamlet doesn't know how to find shakespeare, then iago asks him if he could just relax, that causes a path to appear in the woods. richard's party go down the path and find themselves in a small village where they are attacked by a group called prodigals. richard hands him a knife to protect himself. that night hamlet is almost killed by bandits but is saved by falstaff who knocks him out and kidnaps him. iago is sent to find hamlet. hamlets wakes up and falstaff says he was trying to protect hamlet from people trying to kill him. hamlet tries to escape by creating another path, but can't. falstaff offers to take him to a safer place through the woods. while they travel through the woods they meet puck, falstaff then reveals that he's a prodigal. hamlet tries to get away from falstaff, but instead falstaff takes him to a brothel. the bandits attack the brothel, hamlet and falstaff escape dressed as women. at the same time, richard is attempting to create an alliance with macbeth. lady macbeth kills her husband because she's in league with richard.
kill shakespeare
by shakespeare's day, the word seems to have become obscene. although shakespeare does not use the word explicitly (or with derogatory meaning) in his plays, he still uses wordplay to sneak it in obliquely. in act iii, scene 2, of "hamlet", as the castle's residents are settling in to watch the play-within-the-play, hamlet asks his girlfriend ophelia, "lady, shall i lie in your lap?" ophelia replies, "no, my lord." hamlet, feigning shock, says, "do you think i meant "country matters"?" then, to drive home the point that the accent is definitely on the first syllable of "country", shakespeare has hamlet say, "that's a fair thought, to lie between maids' legs." in "twelfth night" (act ii, scene v) the puritanical malvolio believes he recognises his employer's handwriting in an anonymous letter, commenting "there be her very cs, her us, and her ts: and thus makes she her great ps", unwittingly punning on "cunt" and "piss", and while it has also been argued that the slang term "cut" is intended, pauline kiernan writes that shakespeare ridicules "prissy puritanical party-poopers" by having "a puritan spell out the word 'cunt' on a public stage". a related scene occurs in "henry v": when katherine is learning english, she is appalled at the ""gros, et impudique"" words "foot" and "gown", which her teacher has mispronounced as ""coun"". it is usually argued that shakespeare intends to suggest that she has misheard "foot" as ""foutre"" (french, "fuck") and "coun" as ""con"" (french "cunt", also used to mean "idiot").
cunt