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A 5 page paper which examines explains the meaning of the poetic passage and considers how it affects the plot of the play. No additional sources are used.
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it appears obvious that Hamlet is feigning madness so as to reveal the ambitious Claudius as the murderer of his father, King Hamlet, his fury concerning what he regards as
the betrayal of his mother Gertrude (who married her brother-in-law Claudius only three months after the slaying of her husband) is quite real. The ensuing struggle between Hamlet and
Claudius ensnares everyone in the royal circle, including the new Kings loyal confidant, Polonius, and his fragile daughter (who also happens to be Hamlets lover), Ophelia.
Although earlier in the scene, Hamlet poignantly pondered committing suicide to end his suffering, it is poor Ophelia who is truly caught in the crossfire
of this male battle of wills. When she obliges her father by breaking off her relationship with the erratic young prince, Hamlet becomes enraged. He asserts that he
never really loved Ophelia and that she was as false as any thing of beauty. Hamlet charges that womens painted faces and erotic movements are not examples of beauty,
but are deceptive efforts to trap a man into marriage. He urges Ophelia to enter a nunnery in order to keep whatever virtue she may still retain intact.
Ophelia is naturally shocked and confused by Hamlets peculiar behavior and struggles to understand why her one-time sensitive and honorable lover would treat her so shabbily. Speaking in her
trademark schoolgirl prose, Ophelia observes, "O, what a noble mind is here oerthrown! / The courtiers, scholars, soldiers, eye, tongue, sword, / Th expectancy and rose of the fair state,
/ The glass of fashion and the mould of form, / Th observd of all observers- quite, quite down! / And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, / That
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