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In this key scene from hamlet's act 3 scene 1, hamlet gives ophelia a scathing rebuke, urging her to enter a convent. He accuses her of deceit and infidelity, and warns her of the calumny that will follow her if she marries. This extract is a powerful example of hamlet's madness and his growing obsession with ophelia.
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Hamlet Act 3 Scene 1 Extract Key Scene: The Nunnery Scene HAMLET We are arrant knaves all - believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery. Where's your father? OPHELIA At home, my lord. HAMLET Let the doors be shut upon him that he may play the fool no where but in's own house. Farewell. OPHELIA O help him, you sweet heavens! HAMLET If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery. Farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery go, and quickly too. Farewell. OPHELIA Heavenly powers restore him. HAMLET I have heard too of your paintings well enough. God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another. You jig and amble and you lisp, you nickname God's creatures and make your wantonness ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't. It hath made me mad. I say we will have no more marriage. Those that are married already - all but one - shall
live. The rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go! Exit