... quote allows the reader to follow Hamlet's train of thought in regards to his role as student, mourning son, and Prince to the throne: "I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past That youth and observation copied there, And thy commandment all alone shall live Within the book and volume of my brain ... illustrated by his statements to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, "I know not-lost my mirth, forgone all custom of exercises..." (1071, line 282). Hamlet then admits he is merely feigning insanity with, "I am but mad north-north-west. When the w...

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... that he must stay, but as this scene is set in the palace court he is unable to come out straight with it. The underlying subtext of this and what I am about to quote from Gertrude and Hamlet is a forced compliance by hamlet into saying in Denmark, while surly what would be best for his mental state would be to leave ... starts to think more about his fathers murder and he wants that to become his sole proviso. " Yea, from the table of my memory I"ll wipe away all trivial fond records, All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, That youth and observation copied there, And thy com...

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