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Because everyone talks to himself/herself. It's one of the silly habits we do every day like what do I want for dinner today? Chinese noodle or Indian vegetarian meal? It helps to clarify the mind. An interesting scientific research news lately also tells us that talking to ourselves makes us smart. No wonder that Shakespeare gets famous.

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A monologue during a play would be to help explain to the audience what is going on during the time people are acting on stage. A monologue is also used to narrate or explain pictures that are being shown on a viewing screen.

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Monologues are used in Shakespeare's Hamlet in order to project large amounts of information all at once to the audience. They are most often used when an actor is giving a speech.

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How does hamlet remember yorick?

He tells him that he knew him, and that he was a fellow of most infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. In other words, he was a funny guy. He also used to carry Hamlet piggyback when Hamlet was a child.


Why does Hamlet request the play?

In Act 3, Scene 2 Hamlet says: "the purpose of playing...to hold as 'twere the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure." (Lines 17-20)


What would be the most used quote from Hamlet?

""A truant disposition, good my lord.""- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.2""Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meatsDid coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.""- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.2""In my mind's eye, Horatio.""- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.2""He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again.""- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.2""Season your admiration for a while.""- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.2""In the dead vast and middle of the night.""- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.2""A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.""- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.2""The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel.""- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1.3


What does the King want from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the scene 2?

The king and queen want them to cozy up to Hamlet and find out what's troubling him.


What is the dramatic function of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Hamlet?

They serve a more serious purpose. They are used by the King to spy on Hamlet, that's hardly comic relief. (Even though their fate was funny and well-deserved)

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What lines are still used out of Shakespeares plays?

Some famous lines from Shakespeare's plays that are still commonly used today include "To be, or not to be: that is the question" from Hamlet, "All the world's a stage" from As You Like It, and "To thine own self be true" from Hamlet.


What are the things that represent Hamlet?

Hamlet is typically represented with an image of him in Act V, holding the skull of Yorick. A skull is the object most used to represent Hamlet


In Shakespeares play's they used trap doors and different levels on the stage true or false?

True


What does Horatio tell hamlet about?

He tells him that he knew him, and that he was a fellow of most infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. In other words, he was a funny guy. He also used to carry Hamlet piggyback when Hamlet was a child.


Where did the word 'tragedy' originate?

Tragedy is from ancient Doric Greek, meaning a "goat weaner" it was used by shakespeares actors.


What is used by the king to pawn Hamlet's plan?

Please rephrase this question. As it stands it sounds like Claudius took a cab downtown to Ernie's Pawnshop to get a loan on a map owned by Hamlet. What other kind of plan did Hamlet have? Hamlet is famous for not making plans, of not thinking out any practical scheme to accomplish his revenge.


Where did monolog originate?

If you are asking when the first monologues (speeches or orations delivered by one speaker only) were given, we have evidence that even thousands of years ago, in Bible times, great leaders (such as the Prophets) gave these kinds of talks. But if you are asking when monologues became popular on the stage, that too can be found thousands of years ago, in Ancient Greece, where authors and playwrights made use of them: there is evidence of monologues by Sophocles and Euripedes, for example. And monologue was also frequently used centuries later by Shakespeare.


Did Shakespeare write the famous line to be or not to be?

Yes, he used that line in his play Hamlet.


How does hamlet remember yorick?

He tells him that he knew him, and that he was a fellow of most infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. In other words, he was a funny guy. He also used to carry Hamlet piggyback when Hamlet was a child.


How Genetic is used in Hamlet?

It should come as no surprise that the word "genetic" is not used in Hamlet. The concept of genetics doesn't occur either as the concept wasn't figured out until several hundred years after the play was written. There are two family relationships between characters in the play Hamlet & Gertrude were the parents of Hamlet the prince Polonius is the father of Laertes and Ophelia None of the characters displays any trait which might be genetically linked to their known parents.


Who wrote Origin?

William Shakespeare. Hamlet is now in the public domain. He also wrote many other plays, such as Romeo and Juliet.Some scholars postulate that there was an older version of "Hamlet" that Shakespeare used as his source material, or at least was aware of. They refer to this anonymous work as "Ur-Hamlet."


Who wrote The Originals?

William Shakespeare. Hamlet is now in the public domain. He also wrote many other plays, such as Romeo and Juliet.Some scholars postulate that there was an older version of "Hamlet" that Shakespeare used as his source material, or at least was aware of. They refer to this anonymous work as "Ur-Hamlet."