Compassionate and merciful.
shrewd and cunning is ruled out
responsibility is not needed in this act of kindness
the text does not show the widow doing anything kind
Which speech? I'm fairly certain he's talking quite a bit in Hamlet...
I think that this means, that
<span>How they knew what we
Must know
Without knowing a page did so for future generations to raise them
Of it
Themselves. above themselves/ knew that economic independence would help all women
</span>
I'll tell you. M' father, Pip, he were given to drink, and when he were overtook with drink, he hammered away at my mother, most unmerciful. It were a'most the only hammering he did, indeed, 'xcepting at myself. And he hammered at me with a wigour only to be equalled by the wigour with which he didn't hammer at his anwil. - You're a-listening and understanding, Pip?"
In this excerpt, the action of "hammering"
hope this helps
