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Why Is Honesty Important In Hamlet

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Trust is key in a relationship; therefore, loving one another becomes difficult once it is gone (1A). In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Hamlet struggles to continue loving Ophelia the way he did once his trust is gone. With the recent death of his father and the marriage of his mother Hamlet attempts to understand the significance between trust and love through his conversation with Ophelia.
Hamlet questions Ophelia’s truthfulness by asking: “Ha,ha! Are you honest? [...] Are you fair? [...] That is you be honest and fair, your honesty should submit to no discourse to your beauty” (3.1.103–8). He understands that beauty and honesty are intertwined. “Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is

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