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This 4 page paper discusses the way in which Hamlet uses art to reveal truth; it considers specifically the scenes with the players. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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and the way in which it addresses universal themes. One of the things it explores is the function of art; this paper argues that Hamlet sees art as a means
of revealing truth. Discussion The scenes that reveal his thinking on this point are those that involve the company of players that comes to Elsinore. In Act II, scene ii,
Hamlet welcomes the actors to the castle, and asks them if they remember a speech he once heard. He begins it and the Player King takes it up, giving such
an impassioned performance that he actually ends in tears. Polonius notes it and says, "Look wheer he has not turnd his color and has tears in s eyes. Prithee no
more" (II.ii.519-520). At this point, Hamlet sends the players off with Polonius, who is to see to their housing, but he detains one of them long enough to ask if
they can insert a short speech into their play: "You could for need study a speech of some dozen lines, or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert
int, could you not?" (II.ii.540-543). The player assures Hamlet that they can, and leaves. This brings us to one of the plays great soliloquies: "O what a rogue and peasant
slave am I," (II.ii.550) in which Hamlet discourses on the art of the theater, and compares it to his own situation. He notes that the actor can get so involved
in his acting that he begins to feel the emotions: "Tears in his eyes, distraction in his aspect, / A broken voice, an his whole function suiting / With forms
to his conceit? And all for nothing, / For Hecuba! / Whats Hecuba to him, or he to [Hecuba], / That he should weep for her?" (II.ii.555-560). Hamlet has found
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