Ray Eston Smith
07-05-2009, 11:17 PM
Hamlet (speaking about Fortinbras):
"Examples gross as earth exhort me:
Witness this army of such mass and charge
Led by a delicate and tender prince"
Fortinbras' father was killed by Hamlet's father THIRTY YEARS AGO. Fortinbras is a coward who waited 30 years, until after his father's killer died, then raised an army of "lawless resolutes" to dishonor his father's pledge (that a plot of land should go to the victor in the duel between Fortinbras' father and Hamlet's father).
If Hamlet had really followed Fortinbras' example, he would have delayed for 30 years, then raised an army of "lawless resolutes" to steal Denmark from Claudius' successor.
"Examples gross as earth exhort me:
Witness this army of such mass and charge
Led by a delicate and tender prince"
Fortinbras' father was killed by Hamlet's father THIRTY YEARS AGO. Fortinbras is a coward who waited 30 years, until after his father's killer died, then raised an army of "lawless resolutes" to dishonor his father's pledge (that a plot of land should go to the victor in the duel between Fortinbras' father and Hamlet's father).
If Hamlet had really followed Fortinbras' example, he would have delayed for 30 years, then raised an army of "lawless resolutes" to steal Denmark from Claudius' successor.