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Identify the speaker, the context, and the significance of the following lines from Hamlet (4-6 good sentences): Thus was I sleeping by a brother’s hand, Of life, of crown, of queen at once dispatched, Cut off even in the blossoms of my sin, Unhouseled, disappointed, unaneled, (without final sacrament; unprepared) No reck’ning made, but sent to my account With all my imperfections on my head; O horrible, O horrible, most horrible!
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Identify the specific context and the significance of the following quotation from the Inferno (4-6 good sentences): I bit my hands in helpless grief. And they, thinking I chewed myself for hunger, rose suddenly together. I heard them say: ‘Father, it would give us much less pain if you ate us: it was you who put upon us this sorry flesh; now strip it off again. ‘
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Identify the speaker, the context, and the significance of the following quote from Hamlet (4-6 good sentences): The spirit that I have seenMay be the devil, and the devil hath powerT’ assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps,Out of my weakness and my melancholy,As he is very potent with such spirits,Abuses me to damn me. I’ll have grounds More relative than this. The play’s the thing Wherein I’ll catch the conscience of the king.
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