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On Claudius Rhetorical Devices
HAMLET
On Claudius:
“A little more than kin, a little less than kind”
“Smiling, damned villain!”
“Keeps wassail” “drains his draughts of Rhenish down”
“remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!”
“what, frighted with false fire!”
On Polonius:
“these tedious old fools”
“i’ll lug the guts into the neighbour room”
“you are a fishmonger”
“thou wretched rash, intruding fool, farewell.”
On Gertrude/Ophelia/Women:
“i shall in my best obey you madam”
“Like Niobe, all tears”
“incestuous sheets”
“the funeral baked meats did coldly furnish the marriage tables”
“Frailty, thy name is Woman”
“Get thee to a nunnery”
“Wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them”
“I have heard of your paintings too,God has given
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Let be.”

Death of characters
LAERTES: “I am justly killed with my own trechery”
HAMLET: “Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage”, “Now cracks a noble heart”
CLAUDIUS: “He is justly served, it is a poison tempered by himself”
QUEEN: “The king, the king’s to blame”
OPHELIA: “is she to be buried in a christian burial when she wilfully seeks her own salvation?”
POLONIUS: “I’ll lug the guts into the neighbour

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