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Hamlet's Three Speeches

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In english class we have been reading a play called Hamlet and in acts one through three it shows three messages. Hamlet play is a very popular play and everyone enjoyed this one out of shakespeare. Hamlet tells it very good on his speeches throughout these acts, and are very interesting. At times the play Hamlet would be very questionable and fun to read about. Now, I’m going to go in detail on these three speeches in Hamlet. To begin, in the first speech in Hamlet is about how he feels about his mother. Hamlets, real father had past away because of his uncle which was his father's own brother. While he was laying out in their own garden and his uncle had put poison in his uncle’s ear, he never woke up and was pronounced dead. Hamlet was
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