 | Margaret Mead, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux, Rhoda Métraux - 2000 - 584 lehte
...guards the hero against his destructive tendencies towards the woman (cf. Ghost of Hamlet's Father: "Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive/ Against thy mother aught"). One of the indictments against an inadequate father figure is that he fails to prevent the hero from... | |
 | Lorna Flint - 2000 - 222 lehte
...when he recollects his undertaking to visit his mother does his tone change. His father commanded him: "Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive / Against thy mother aught" (1.5.85-86), and he will keep the letter, if not the spirit, of this law, even though his "tongue and... | |
 | Nancy C. Unger - 2000 - 420 lehte
...dear father love, — Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder," but the spirit also urged Hamlet to "Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive, against thy mother aught." Like Hamlet, Bob was faced with a quandary as to how to resolve his conflicting feelings Bob La Folleue,... | |
 | Lawrence Schoen - 2001 - 240 lehte
...nature in thee, bear it not; Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. But, howsoever thou pursu'st this act, Taint not thy...thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once! The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual... | |
 | John O'Connor - 2001 - 264 lehte
...Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. But howsoever thou pursuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive...thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once. The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 304 lehte
...Let not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. But howsoever thou pursuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive...thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her. Fare thee well at once. The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And 'gins to pale his uneffectual... | |
 | Jan H. Blits - 2001 - 420 lehte
...murderous crime. "But howsomever thus pursuest this act [against Claudius]," the Ghost admonishes Hamlet, Taint not thy mind nor let thy soul contrive Against...thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her. (1.5.84-88) Claudius is to be punished by Hamlet; Gertrude, by God and her own conscience — the one... | |
 | Jeffrey Hart - 2008 - 285 lehte
...Claudius, he also lays on him a charge that contains a very steep condition: But howsomever thou pursuest this act Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven. 3 Hamlet cannot yet be sure that this really is the Ghost of his father. It might be a deceiving spirit... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 212 lehte
...further excruciatingly difficult provisos: "howsomever thou pursues this act [killing Claudius] , / Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive / Against thy mother aught. Leave her to heaven" (I.5.84-86). Arising within these imponderable matters, there is the plot's propulsive engine: revenge.... | |
 | George Wilson Knight - 2002 - 396 lehte
...not the royal bed of Denmark be A couch for luxury and damned incest. But, howsoever thou pursuest this act, Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive...thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. (iv 81) That is, he warns Hamlet against including others beyond Claudius in his condemnation; urges... | |
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Taint not thy mind, nor let thy soul contrive Against thy mother aught; leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge To prick and sting her. 
