When he chooses to obey the ghost's command and revenge his father, Hamlet accepts the intent and idea of revenge, widening it slowly entangling him in Denmark's "unweeded garden". ... Hamlet's madness is one of his strongest links to his uncle's "unweeded garden". ... "You should not have believed me ......I loved you not." ... "Why, man, did they make love to this employment. ... (Act5, Scene2) However Hamlet does not attempt to hide what he has done which shows that although he did become a part of the "unweeded garden" he was never totally bound by it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Another reason Hamlet is loved by all is the fact that almost everyone can relate to Hamlet in one way or the other. ... The "Garden" of Denmark is dead, filled with weeds and decay. The "Garden" can only be reborn once the evil (Claudius) is eliminated. ... Claudius is also a gifted orator and treats his new Queen, "The imperial jointress to this warlike state" (Iii9), with love and respect. ... Such love leads to the conclusion; under different circumstances Hamlet would have been a noble King. ...

• Word Count: 1544
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

In the lines following his suicide thoughts, Hamlet compares Denmark to an unweeded garden in an attempt to symbolize the corruption within his country which is seeded in Claudius. "Fie on't, ah fie, "tis an unweeded garden/ That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature" (Shakespeare I. ... This leads him to ponder true love and make a hasty generalization about all women. ... The relationship between his mother and father in comparison with his mother's decision to embark on a new relationship with his uncle makes Hamlet give up on true love. ...

• Word Count: 1324
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• Grade Level: High School

"''Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature. ... Hamlet accepts that weeds are a natural part of the garden (and generally a natural part of life), he feels that the weeds have grown out of control and now they have possessed him entirely. ... He feels that his problems are out of control, just as weeds are in a garden. ... "For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, Th' oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit ...

• Word Count: 2110
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• Grade Level: High School

--If you love/ me, hold not off."... During the play Hamlet says what is happening in the scene where the king is being killed, and he uses this to get the guilt of Claudius: "He poisons him in the garden for his estate./ His name's Gonzago. ... You shall see anon how the murderer/ gets the love of Gonzago's wife."... At Ophelia's he loudly challenges Laertes and his love for his dead sister, arguing that because he loved Ophelia more than Laertes, whatever Laertes might do out of grief, he could do more: "I loved Ophelia. ... Hamlet feels somewhat responsible for her death, so ...

• Word Count: 1897
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This is evident in Act 1, in which Hamlet's love and passion for his father naturally positions him to be inferior to King Hamlet's apparition. ... Shakespeare uses intense punctuation and fragmented sentences to allude to Hamlet's passionate frustration and distress at the lack of truth in Ellsinore, using rotting imagery, "sullied" "unweeded garden" "rank and gross in nature," to emphasize the deception present at Ellsinore. ...

• Word Count: 1435
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After the death of his father, and quick "two months nay" remarriage of his mother, every aspect of the world seems to be diseased, and is an "unweeded garden that grows to seed" (I.2.136). ... To Laertes, Ophelia is a young, innocent bud and the canker is her love of Hamlet; since he cannot marry her, he could only break her heart and leave her like the flower bud eaten by a worm. ...

• Word Count: 1339
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• Grade Level: High School

Fie on't, ah fie [dung], 'tis an unweeded garden [womb] that grows [becomes pregnant] to seed [semen], things [male sex] rank [in heat] and gross [lewd] in nature [female sex] possess it [sexually] merely [ 'merrily', lecherously].... In 1917, Freud published his essay called Mourning and melancholia in which he identifies its symptoms as: "a profoundly painful dejection, cessation of interest in the outside world, loss of the capacity to love, inhibition of all activity, and a lowering of the self regarding feelings to a degree that finds utterance in self-reproaches...

• Word Count: 1979
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School