Read an analysis of a theme in Hamlet. in
Which excerpt from Act V of Hamlet best provides
One theme in Hamlet is that the rules of society are
evidence of the this theme's development?
often based on wealth and power rather than fairness.
Second Clown: I tell thee she is; and therefore make
her grave straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and
finds it Christian burial.
First Clown: For here lies the point: if I drown myself
wittingly it argues an act; and an act hath three
branches; it is, to act, to do, and to perform: argal, she
drowned herself wittingly.
Second Clown: Will you ha' the truth on 't? If this had
nol been a gentlewoman she should have been buried
out o' Christian burial.
First Clown: I like thy wit well, in good faith; the
gallows does well, but how does it well? it does well to
those that do ill; now thou dost ill to say the gallows is
built stronger than the church:
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