... a great opportunity to take his life. But wait! If Hamlet were to seek revenge now, Claudius would go straight to heaven. Hamlet here spends an eloquent soliloquy pondering this sudden hasty murder. Now might I do it pat, now a is a-praying and now I"ll so't. . . and so am I revenged. That would be scanned: a villain kills my father, and for that I, his sole son, do ... this same villain send to heaven. (III.III.73-78) Next show of Hamlet's over used, over questioning brain is his contemplation of his own death. As I have stated before ... a man whose intellect is holding him back. The...

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... thy fortune;/ Thou find'st to be too busy is some danger.- [Act III. scene IV, lines 31-33] and then talks about lugging his guts into another room. After Hamlet kills Polonius he will not tell anyone where the body is. Instead he assumes his ironic matter which others take it as madness. Not where he eats, but where he is eaten ... stem from madness. And I do doubt the hatch and the disclose/ Will be some danger; which for to prevent,/ I have in quick determination [Act III, scene I, lines 165-167]. Polonius admits that Hamlet's actions and words have a method to them; there appears to...

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