... . The intense personal relationship of Gertrude and Hamlet is constructed in a form in which Hamlet's fixation is provided little context, allowing for the development of speculative interpretations. The established extended metaphor of the "unweeded garden" resonates throughout the princes' cautioning to Gertrude, "not to spread the compost on the weeds". The carefully constructed sentences lack an explanation ... ...

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