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3 years ago

Why is the idea of playing a role or acting a part so important to hamlet over the course of the play?

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Hamlet says early in the play that, in order to remain in Elsinore while he plans his revenge against Claudius, he may pretend to be crazy. People who might otherwise be suspcious of his motives will merely assume that the grief over his father's death is the cause of his erratic behavior.

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Gertrude doesn't want to face her sins, which is why she tells Hamlet, "speak no more."

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