Hamlet, Part 6: Applying Literary Criticism Answers

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Repeated references to ears and hearing in Hamlet are an example of a literary

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Read the dialogue from Act III of Hamlet.Hamlet: Now, mother, what’s the matter?Gertrude: Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended.Hamlet: Mother, you have my father much offended.

Read the words of King Claudius in Act IV of Hamlet.Come, Gertrude, we’ll call up our wisest friends; And let them know both what we mean to do, And what’s untimely done: so, haply, slander, Whose whisper o’er the world’s diameter, As level as the cannon to his blank Transports his poison’d shot, may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. O! come away;