WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet Read the extract and answer the question It is here,......thou art slain; No medicine in the world can do thee good, In thee the...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet
Read the extract and answer the question
It is here,......thou art slain;
No medicine in the world can do thee good,
In thee there is not half an hour of life;
The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
Unbated and envenom d: the foul practice
Hath turn'd itself on me; lo; here I lie,
(Act 5, Scene Two, Lines 298-303)
The speaker is
Read the extract and answer the question
It is here,......thou art slain;
No medicine in the world can do thee good,
In thee there is not half an hour of life;
The treacherous instrument is in thy hand,
Unbated and envenom d: the foul practice
Hath turn'd itself on me; lo; here I lie,
(Act 5, Scene Two, Lines 298-303)
The speaker is
Answer Details
The speaker in this passage is Laertes. He is speaking about his own impending death as a result of the poisoned sword he used to wound Hamlet during their final duel. Laertes realizes that he himself has become a victim of the "foul practice" he had intended for Hamlet, and laments that there is no cure for the deadly poison that is now coursing through his body.
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