Lesson 15: the literature of africa unit test
eng 2a unit 6: africa essay

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why does he not kill claudius when he sees him in act iii, scene iii?

hamlet decided not to kill claudius because   he believes that claudius' soul will go to heaven. hamlet knew his father didn't had the chance to repent of his sins so sending claudiu's to heaven wouldn't be a fair revenge for him.

why does he kill polonius in act iii, scene iv?

hamlet believed that claudius was behind the arras and stabbed him with a sword. unfortunately, polonius was the spy.

how do these two actions affect your understanding of hamlet as a man of thought or a man of action?

hamlet made mistaken choices. he obsessed by existencial questions like if it is worth living, if he should commit suicide or kill his uncle. he was a man of though and action in my opinion. trying to revenge his father committed a lot of mistakes which makes me think he got mad not knowing what to really do.

the car accident could not have been avoided, according to the police officer.

''i see birches bend to left and right; you must have seen them loaded with ice; you may see their trunks arching in the woods; and climb black branches up a snow-white trunk.'' since father died of tuberculosis when frost was 11 years old, perhaps boy is representative of his childhood. frost being the only boy in his family, had to become the man of the house at a young age. so the poem represents his dreams of being innocent once again.