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Hamlet compares himself to the actor who can work himself into a tearful emotion over a speech. Hamlet accuses himself of cowardice - "I am pigeonlivered and lack gall.like a whore, unpack my heart with words" "the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
Hamlet compares himself to the actor who can work himself into a tearful emotion over a speech. Hamlet accuses himself of cowardice - "I am pigeonlivered and lack gall.like a whore, unpack my heart with words" "the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
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Hamlet compares himself to the actor who can work himself into a tearful emotion over a speech. Hamlet accuses himself of cowardice - "I am pigeonlivered and lack gall.like a whore, unpack my heart with words" "the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king."
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Number Two - Act Two, scene two - “O what a rogue and
peasant slave am I!”
context - realizes R & G are spies for Claudius and has
seen a player perform a speech about the murder of Priam and the scene where Priam, a Greek general has been slain and his wife Hecuba weeps and cries out to the heavens - he can’t help but think of his mother Gertrude in contrast - he reflects on how he has failed to act to on the revenge.
Hamlet compares himself to the actor who can work
himself into a tearful emotion over a speech and who would act if he had a motive like Hamlet’s motive
“Yet I, A dull and muddy-mettled rascal, peak, like a
John-a-dreams, unpregnant of my cause and can say nothing.” Hamlet berates himself
Hamlet accuses himself of cowardice - “I am pigeon-
livered and lack gall....like a whore, unpack my heart with words..” (No actions just cursing like a whore)
Right after this emotional outburst - Hamlet comes up
with the idea for the play - “The Mousetrap”
Hamlet wants to make sure the ghost is right - “The spirit
that I have seen, May be the devil...and perhaps out of my weakness and my melancholy, as he is very potent with such spirits, abuses me to damn me.”
“The play’s the thing wherein I’ll catch the conscience of