1) The speaker accuses Hamlet of hypocrisy and madness for criticizing Denmark when he himself engages in erratic behavior.
2) The speaker rejects Hamlet's suggestion that she enter a nunnery, noting that he presents her with empty promises and broke their anniversary traditions.
3) While Hamlet portrays her as unchaste, the speaker believes Hamlet engaged in drunken behavior at university and questions his own fidelity. She offers him flowers to take to England as a parting gesture.
1) The speaker accuses Hamlet of hypocrisy and madness for criticizing Denmark when he himself engages in erratic behavior.
2) The speaker rejects Hamlet's suggestion that she enter a nunnery, noting that he presents her with empty promises and broke their anniversary traditions.
3) While Hamlet portrays her as unchaste, the speaker believes Hamlet engaged in drunken behavior at university and questions his own fidelity. She offers him flowers to take to England as a parting gesture.
1) The speaker accuses Hamlet of hypocrisy and madness for criticizing Denmark when he himself engages in erratic behavior.
2) The speaker rejects Hamlet's suggestion that she enter a nunnery, noting that he presents her with empty promises and broke their anniversary traditions.
3) While Hamlet portrays her as unchaste, the speaker believes Hamlet engaged in drunken behavior at university and questions his own fidelity. She offers him flowers to take to England as a parting gesture.
Dearest Hamlet, I believe that you are right in at least this
much. Denmark is a prison, the jailors, swine and hypocrites, so keen on protecting a treasure that was never theirs to have. If you have caught madness then it is only a madness, which, up until now has enflamed the mind of the moiety. Misogyny must be an airborne illness, to have spread so quickly. And I thought you of all people would be immune. Get thee to a nunnery? Better if you were to make for a monastery. They would, of course, be the only ones to accept you. Indifferent honest is even a stretch for you. Why not just be honest? We both know what youre really likeId not so much be a breeder of sinners as one of trow. Where did you get this idea that I wanted to breed? That anyone would have wanted to breed? Certainly you could not have from my countenance as you presented to me your codpiece. Or were you mad then, too? You took the breakup as well as I thought you would. Funny, at first I had thought to oppose my father, the jailor he is. After careful deliberation, however, I decided it would be for the best. Youve admitted it yourself, Hamlet. Your poems composed of sweet breaths, light airy nothings inscribed in a most dainty scriptempty promises. What happened to the violets that you were supposed to give me for our anniversary? You must have misplaced them, and let them wilt away in some unseen corner while you were busy giving my father advice, or reading those words, words, words of which you are so fond. Of course, when I quite reasonably give back your presents, I am painted the monster. Oh, I will be the unchaste breeder of sinnersnot you, Prince Hamlet, epitome of fidelity. Im sure, Hamlet, that nothing happened while you were in university. Im sure, Hamlet, that you didnt go on any drunken stupors which you so much loved to do before your uncle became King. Youre worse than my brother; off on the primrose path to heaven he goes. Would you like some columbines, before you go back? I know that it must be awfully dreary in England this time of year without at least some to brighten your room. Ill just stay here in my own little prison.