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He answers Jiang's question about prayer by citing Claudius in Hamlet, whose attempted confession confirms his guilt while also demonstrating that prayer can fail when ambition and sin remain intact.
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Claudius
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...and I'll just use it as an illustration. And that is Claudius, the uncle of Hamlet, who has murdered Hamlet's father. Is is overheard..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...and I'll just use it as an illustration. And that is Claudius, the uncle of Hamlet, who has murdered Hamlet's father. Is is overheard..."
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Bromwich treats Claudius's failed prayer as proof that ambition can know exactly what it has done and still remain blocked from genuine self-knowledge or repentance.
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"...and I'll just use it as an illustration. And that is Claudius, the uncle of Hamlet, who has murdered Hamlet's father. Is is overheard..."
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"...that that's, that's his favorite speech in Shakespeare. That speech by Claudius. And it's just a passing thing. But it's a confession of just..."
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"...sorry he wouldn't be in heaven because he did kill um claudius right uh so he'd been purgatory but i mean he wouldn't be..."
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"...an open trial where um evan could see the guilt of claudius okay and so hamlet what he was ordered to uh avenge his..."
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"...his dead father tells Hamlet, I was killed by your uncle Claudius, who now has stolen the throne from me, as well as married..."
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"It is your responsibility as my son to seek vengeance against Claudius. So that's the mission of Hamlet. The problem is that Hamlet, he..."
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"...interpret this as saying he's asking himself, how should he kill Claudius? Should he kill Claudius? Okay? That's a different interpretation. Yet another interpretation..."
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