Hamlet

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   blazedale

   The actual quote from act 3, sc. 1, l. 123-4:

   Get thee to a nunnery. Why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners?

   In the context of the play, Hamlet then says:

   I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me.... What should such fellows as I do crawling between heaven and earth? We are arrant knaves, all.

   Basically, he's saying to Ophelia that the world stinks, and she may as well become a Nun and never have any children, because the world is so rotten. This shows Hamlet's despair, as well as his conflicted desires towards Ophelia.

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   http://history.enotes.com/famous-quotes/get-thee-to-a-nun...

   http://www.enotes.com/hamlet-text/3331

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   Posted by blazedale on Tuesday February 13, 2007 at 11:22 AM
   
   

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