Hamlet

Hamlet

How is Hamlet consternation over the state of Denmark and example of the "trap" metaphor? How is the metaphor built?

 

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 I'm not exactly sure about "trap" metaphor but there is certainly a "trap" motif throughout the play. Hamlet talks about Denmark being a "dungeon". Rosencrantz and Guildenstern counter that it is only Hamlet's attitude that makes it so. Hamlet retaliates with the metaphor (this might be it) of being bound in a nutshell and thinking he is "the king of infinite space." "

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