raggedtrousered
09-06-2009, 01:44 PM
Hello, over the past five days I've read through Hamlet twice and seen the 1996 film version. The one quote I cannot understand from the play comes in act IV, scene V where Laertes says to the king, "That drop of blood that’s calm proclaims me bastard,
Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot
Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brows
Of my true mother." How do you all interpret this quote?
Thanks.
Cries cuckold to my father, brands the harlot
Even here, between the chaste unsmirched brows
Of my true mother." How do you all interpret this quote?
Thanks.