Read an analysis of a theme in Hamlet. One theme in Hamlet is that the rules of society are often based on wealth and power rath

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Read an analysis of a theme in Hamlet. One theme in Hamlet is that the rules of society are often based on wealth and power rath

er than fairness. Which excerpt from Act V of Hamlet best provides evidence of the this theme’s development? Second Clown: I tell thee she is; and therefore make her grave straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial. First Clown: For here lies the point: if I drown myself wittingly it argues an act; and an act hath three branches; it is, to act, to do, and to perform: argal, she drowned herself wittingly. Second Clown: Will you ha’ the truth on ’t? If this had not been a gentlewoman she should have been buried out o’ Christian burial. First Clown: I like thy wit well, in good faith; the gallows does well, but how does it well? it does well to those that do ill; now thou dost ill to say the gallows is built stronger than the church:

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