Hamlet: Act Iii Scene Ii
Hamlet: Act III Scene II
In this scene, taking place in a castle hall, Hamlet devises a plan to reinforce his beliefs of his uncle’s treachery by having a play acted out for him. This play tells the story of a nephew who murders his uncle, the king, and marries his widowed wife, mimicking Hamlet’s real life circumstance with Claudius and Gertrude. Hamlet tells Horatio that they should both keep watch over Claudius for any signs of guilt throughout the play. Claudius does, indeed, storm out of the theater hall when the poison is poured in the king’s ear, which confirms for Hamlet his uncle’s guilt. Concluding the scene with a soliloquy after being beckoned by his mother, Hamlet reveals that he will be brutally honest with his mother in regards to his feelings of her adulterous actions, but he promises not to physically harm her. “I will speak daggers to her, but use none”. This is an important scene as a whole because Hamlet no longer has any shred of doubt that the......
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