if you dont mind

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Hamlet

if you dont mind

Oh, ’tis too true! How smart a lash that speech doth give my conscience! The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art, Is not more ugly to the thing that helps it Than is my deed to my most painted word. O heavy burden! this to i really dont understand this one

Asked by Bob B #498719 on 4/5/2016 3:50 AM

Last updated by jill d #170087 on 4/5/2016 4:15 AM

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 4/5/2016 4:15 AM

Claudius lines directly follow Polonius'. He concedes that Polinius' assessement is true, and that those same words give him a guilty conscience. He compares the whore's use of make-up to disguise a bad complexion, in the same way he masks his own ugly actions with pretty words. Claudius ends by lamenting his own guilt.

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