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Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's hamlet to dine own

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cells Alas shmoop What does the line to mine own

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self be true mean in the context of the play

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It's it's a release intentions speech it's it's famous actually

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for being as as obnoxious as possible in the context

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of the play is part of this just litany of

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pieces of advice that are really dumb cliches and allow

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them contradict each other So like neither a borrower nor

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a lender be and you know dressed this way associate

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with these kinds of friends do this and that I

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mean this is being delivered from polonius to his song

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garrity's clarity's is just going all right whatever But one

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gets the sense that this advice isn't to be taken

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seriously It's more just like a hodgepodge of you know

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like dumb stuff Parents say does this quote correlate with

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a theme of bad parenting Yeah i mean definitely bad

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parenting is a theme throughout gertrude august doesn't seem to

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be a great mother hamlet seems to be older hamlet

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ghost hamlet has come back to tell young hamlet to

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take revenge for him like definitely parents you'd be using

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their kids as tools and polonius is no exception layer

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tease you want to be like a good reflection of

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him and ophelia He's always trying to manipulate her sex

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life kind of use her as a pawn What does

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the line tooth i kn own self be true mean

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in the context of the play Does this quote correlate 00:01:33.187 --> [endTime] with a theme of bad parenting No Eh

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