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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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Hamlet
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...it as an illustration. And that is Claudius, the uncle of Hamlet, who has murdered Hamlet's father. Is is overheard by the audience, not..."
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Jiang places Hamlet in Purgatory rather than heaven because Hamlet kills Claudius and therefore still needs repentance, even though his act is not mere vengeance.
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He argues that Hamlet turns vengeance into justice because he investigates Claudius's guilt and stages an open trial before killing him.
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'To be or not to be' can mean life versus death, killing versus not killing, fate versus defiance, and the point of existence all at once.
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"...it as an illustration. And that is Claudius, the uncle of Hamlet, who has murdered Hamlet's father. Is is overheard by the audience, not..."
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"All I was gonna say is, Lincoln says that that that's, that's his favorite speech in Shakespeare. That speech by Claudius. And it's just..."
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"...some hero in in china or some hero in the like hamlet right so i don't know if hamlet just on one hand just..."
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"...the jeopardize in the paradise well i mean i think that hamlet would be in paradise uh because first of all hamlet is a..."
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"...um evan could see the guilt of claudius okay and so hamlet what he was ordered to uh avenge his father and he and..."
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"...from it and escape into death. So this is saying that Hamlet is overwhelmed by the moral dilemma he's put in. Okay? He cannot..."
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"...the Silicui and see how these are images. Okay? So when Hamlet says, suffer the slings and arrows"
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"...Shakespeare, you also have people like that in Shakespeare. You have Hamlet, you have, they are all characters are distinct individuals. So if they..."
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"...that people most like to memorize every bit as much as Hamlet's to be or not to be. We're not getting a piece of,..."
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"...and Juliet a little after towards the time he's writing um Hamlet Macbeth comes a few years later uh and in a way is..."
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"...he's revealed to you right okay so um let's do shakespeare hamlet the famous hamlet soliloquy okay to be or not to be"
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"...it's a good thing because it's what allows for progress. And Hamlet by Shakespeare is a book that celebrates individuality, individual reflection. Goethe's Thos..."
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