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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
Shakespeare
What does this quote means ( from Hamlet ) ?
"Get thee to a nunn'ry."
"Get thee to a nunn'ry."
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Hi Hamlet says it to Ophelia when she returns his gifts and love letters. He is confused as to whether she does this because she does not wish an intimate relationship; or if she has a relationship with another man A nunnery is, of course, a place where nuns live, so he is saying: if you wish to be pure, go and be pure However, a Shakespearean audience would probably have also understood 'nunnery' as slang for a brothel. So he is also expressing the other thought that he has Dave
- Hi Hamlet says it to Ophelia when she returns his gifts and love letters.
- He is confused as to whether she does this because she does not wish an intimate relationship; or if she has a relationship with another man A nunnery is, of course, a place where nuns live, so he is saying: if you wish to be pure, go and be pure However, a Shakespearean audience would probably have also understood 'nunnery' as slang for a brothel.
- So he is also expressing the other thought that he has Dave
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Hamlet says it to Ophelia when she returns his gifts and love letters. He is confused as to whether she does this because she does not wish an intimate relationship; or if she has a relationship with another man
A nunnery is, of course, a place where nuns live, so he is saying: if you wish to be pure, go and be pure
However, a Shakespearean audience would probably ha
Hamlet says it to Ophelia when she returns his gifts and love letters. He is confused as to whether she does this because she does not wish an intimate relationship; or if she has a relationship with another man
A nunnery is, of course, a place where nuns live, so he is saying: if you wish to be pure, go and be pure
However, a Shakespearean audience would probably ha
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