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A 3 page essay that analyzes this metaphor from the end of Act I, Scene 5. The writer argues that Hamlet feels that his universe and everything in it, including time, has been displaced and made alien to him. Sometimes there are life events that are so dramatic-- or traumatic-- that it divides time for that individual from that moment on. Everything that has ever occurred for this individual can be "dated" as either before or after in regards to this event. Such is the case for Hamlet, who has been confronted by a string of events that have undermined his basic assumptions about life and it is this realization to which he refers. The events leading up to this line are reviewed and discussed. No additional sources cited.
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right!" (I.5.188-189). As this suggests, Hamlet feels that his universe and everything in it, including time, has been displaced and made alien to him. Sometimes there are life events that
are so dramatic-- or traumatic-- that it divides time for that individual from that moment on. Everything that has ever occurred for this individual can be "dated" as either before
or after in regards to this event. Such is the case for Hamlet, who has been confronted by a string of events that have undermined his basic assumptions about life
and it is this realization to which he refers. Shakespeare has previously made it clear that Hamlet is the only person at the Danish court who finds the ascension of
his uncle to the throne and the rapid marriage of his mother to her former brother-in-law to be offensive. Certainly, other characters in the play, such as Polonius, to not
grasp the significance of what has transpired, as he goes about relating pompous, fatherly advice to his son Laertes about his behavior away from home, "Be thou familiar, but by
no means vulgar" (I.3.61). For him, time goes on as always, but for Hamlet, his world has already been shaken by his fathers death and his mothers rash marriage even
before he sees the Ghost and receives his deadly mission. When the Ghost appears to him, Hamlet voices his apprehension as to the precise nature of the apparition. "Be
thou a spirit of health or goblin damnd,/Bring with thee airs of from heaven or blasts from hell" (I.4.40-41). The Ghost indicates that if Hamlet ever loved his father,
he will "Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" (I.5.25). This pronouncements verifies Hamlets worst fears as he had already suspected that something was amiss in his fathers death. He
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