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hamdizzle
09-02-2007, 01:12 AM
Hey everyone
ive been going through alot about hamlet (the play) and ive came to my next question of the play.
ive come to think that Hamlet (the play) shows us that knowing who not to trust is more important than knowing who to trust....and i was wondering what everybody thinks of how hamlet (the play) explores trust?

Looking forward to your insight

Mike Xi
10-07-2007, 10:26 PM
Queen. If it be,
Why seems it so particular with thee?
Ham. Seems, madam! Nay, it is; I know not
'seems.'
'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother,
Nor customary suits of solemn black,
Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath,
No, nor the fruitful river in the eye,
Nor the dejected haviour of the visage,
Together with all forms, modes, shows of grief,
That can denote me truly; these indeed seem,
For they are actions that a man might play:
But I have that within which passeth show;
These but the trappings and the suits of woe.

Everything in Hamlet's mind is nothing but Seems,which people could play. So he compared himself as a pipe in front of R&G, his fellowstudent. Everyone in Hamlet's heart is just a piper trying to pipe a pipe.

Anyway, Horatio is an exception, whose personality is A man in suffering all, that suffers nothing && Not passion's slave