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In act iii of hamlet, why did hamlet choose not to kill claudius when he was praying?
hamlet felt sorry for claudius as he heard him pray.
hamlet was unsure whether he could kill claudius on his own.
hamlet reconsidered making his mother a widow a second time.
hamlet did not want claudius to go to heaven with a clean soul.
hamlet chose to forgive claudius after hearing him pray.

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Hamlet did not kill Claudius because he did so while Claudius was still in prayer, his soul would go to Heaven but the Spirit of his father will remain in Purgatory. He instead quarrels with his mother while Polonius listens behind the tapestry. When Hamlet stabs the tapestry he kills Polonius instead. Things take a turn for the worse after that as Ophelia commits suicide and during a fencing Gertrude drinks poison while Hamlet wounds Laertes with a poisoned sword and Hamlet uses that sword on him. As Gertrude dies, she reconciles with her son. Laertes confesses that Claudius caused all this and Hamlet kills Claudius. Before he dies he names Fortinbras the successor to the throne.

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#1: what is the simile that occurs in lines 43-47 (below)? give exact words for just the simile. #2: explain what frost means by this comparison.

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

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