... breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion" (II.2.181-182), showing his view that even the life-giving sun can give life to disgusting disease. He follows later, after finding out that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have come to see him under orders from Claudius and not friendship, that "this most excellent canopy, the air this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why ... to Laertes quick and passionate decisions, who if he were Hamlet, would have "cut his throat in church" (IV.7.127). The end of the play seems to culminate each character's sickness into their downfall...

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... ideas state that a child has been pampered all of his life and feels he suddenly might be booted out of the family circle. The mother has done the sole pampering in the family so that is where the child sexual desires go to. Kissing and feeling the mother is explained more in Alder's ideas (Mullahy 126). This can also apply to Hamlet, since he may feel his ... he was to hold his tongue on what he says or he will be viewed as a fool. As we see him at the beginning of the play, he is suffering from melancholy, not only from the death of his father, but also from the shock of the sudden di...

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... not see Hamlet as a bright and cheery comedy, but rather a tragedy. The motif sets the understanding of other aspects of the play aside from the mood as well. The lines in the play that describe the rotten views of Denmark and the decaying bodies could also be seen as a symbol. When Marcellus makes the comment "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark" he was not talking about a foul smell that ... of a man who would use his daughter as a possession, compares Polonius's morals to maggots in a dog's carcass. By saying "For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing ca...

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... as a possible sign of disaster or catastrophe in Denmark, as to what happened before the death of Julius Caesar. From the start of the play, Denmark was already tainted and wrought with disease that would eventually continue over the course of the play. In Hamlet's first soliloquy, he states that the world is "an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess ... foundation of disease, which affected everyone active person in that first act. In the second act, Hamlet begins to go mad. "For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion,...

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• Grade Level: High School