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jhonhonai
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High School - 12th Grade
One of the play's major themes is illusion vs reality, it takes center stage in Act 2. where is evidence of this theme being explored?
what possible messages could shakesphere be trying to convey?
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renelane Teacher
High School - 11th GradePosted by renelane on Thursday November 8, 2007 at 3:06 AMThe players reenacting Aeneas's tale to Dido of Pyrrus's murdering Priam. As Hamlet is consumed with his inaction towards Claudius, the play on stage is doing what he can't. The play on the stage and the one in the audience mirror the same circumstances, but with different outcomes. The illusion is the reenactment, and the reality is the situation at hand for Hamlet.
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- - For teachers, the Hamlet Lesson Plan.
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