[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

...this employment. They are not near my conscience. Their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow. Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (57-62) In immediate context, this is a further piece of self-justification; the point is that it is...

[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

[ Denne sides indhold er desværre begrænset. ]

...this employment. They are not near my conscience, their defeat Does by their own insinuation grow. 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes Between...pass and fell incensed points Of mighty opposites. (5.2.57-62) Initially (57-59), Hamlet suggests that he has merely responded defensively to their own...

...during the shipboard passage.25 Hamlet's justification for dispensing with the hapless messengers—" 'Tis dangerous when the baser nature comes / Between...pass and fell incensed points / Of mighty opposites" (5.2.60-63) — barely conceals the fact that it is the sacrifice of the intermediaries, their reduction...