![]() ![]() asking if she is honest–a double meaning: truthful and chaste.He refuses, claiming to have never given her any. ![]() When he sees her, she says that she has “remembrances” (III.i.93) of Hamlet’s that she wishes to return. Before Hamlet “notices” (my air quotes, not Shakespeare’s actual ones) Ophelia, Hamlet seems to come to the conclusion that either an internal moral view and/or mere conscious thought makes man a cowardly being who will naturally “lose the name of action” (III.i.88). We’ll be going over the speech in much greater detail later in our deeper dives into the play, but suffice to say, there’s a lot for the audience (including both we the readers AND Claudius and Polonius) to ponder. To be or not to be - that is the question…Ī speech of self-argument, possibly of self-slaughter.
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