... explained by his description of his parents" idyllic marriage and the references to the brevity of the period between Hamlet's father's death and his mother's remarriage. In the line, "But two months dead-nay, not so much, not two" a spectator would receive a sense of Hamlet's despair and disbelief. The way the line is broken up by punctuation and the repetition of "not", creating ... his soliloquy. He talks of G-d and religious law, uses images of Greek mythological figures and pleads to "Heaven and Earth." It is this plea particularly that suggests Hamlet wants a greater power than hi...

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