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1
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a bloody deed!

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a bloody deed! i almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry his brother.

2
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o hamlet! speak no more

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o hamlet! speak no more; thou turn’st mine eyes into my very soul; and there i see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct

3
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in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stew’d in corruption,

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stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty

4
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WHO SAYS THIS you are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife; and - would it were not so! - you are my mother.

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Hamlet to gertrude

5
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EXPLAIN you are the queen, your husband’s brother’s wife; and - would it were not so! - you are my mother.

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i wish it wasn’t true you were my mother
hamlet’s fury finally comes out, directed at his mother
holds gertrude in contempt (hates her)

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WHO SAYS THIS? a bloody deed! i almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry his brother.

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hamlet

7
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EXPLAIN a bloody deed! i almost as bad, good mother, as kill a king and marry his brother.

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hamlet accuses gertrude of regicide and feels that she has betrayed her duty as a wife and a queen

8
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WHO SAYS THIS I took thee for thy better

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hamlet to polonius

9
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EXPLAIN I took thee for thy better

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hamlet wishes that it was claudius that he killed, then his duty would be done

10
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WHO SAYS THIS such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty

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hamlet

11
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EXPLAIN such an act that blurs the grace and blush of modesty

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betrayal by gertrude, moral betrayal (its plain bad) and personal betrayal (king hamlet and prince hamlet)

 - you should be ashamed of yourself 
 - if hamlet cannot rely on gertrude he cannot cope                       with the world
12
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WHO SAYS THIS o hamlet! speak no more; the turn’s mine eyes into my very soul; and there i see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct

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gertrude

13
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EXPLAIN o hamlet! speak no more; the turn’s mine eyes into my very soul; and there i see such black and grained spots as will not leave their tinct

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black spots cannot be cleaned

  • he has forced her to look at what she’s done
  • already has a heightened awareness of her failure
  • doesn’t want to hear it from hamlet
14
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WHO SAYS THIS stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty

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hamlet

15
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EXPLAIN stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty

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she took away the beauty of the world for him
she has ruined love for him
he doesn’t want to think about her relationship with claudius

16
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TECHNIQUE stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty

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JUXTAPOSITION of 2 metaphors
sty -> sin
honey -> beauty