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What is a good quote spoken by Fortinbras comparing himself to Hamlet?

Can someone help me analyze what this hamlet quote means please?

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    In Shakespeare's time, the verb "lie" had a secondary slang or "off-color" sexual meaning that survives to this day in the sentence, "I got laid." Hamlet's use of "country matters" refers to this sexual meaning, with the word "country" having overtones of "crude" (like farm animals). As a side issue, the word "die" in Shakespeare's time also had a secondary sexual meaning that comes up in the poetry of John Donne in the 1600's. With sex being pervasive in human experience, it's interesting how many words "take on" sexual overtones or connotations. For example, "Let's do it" immediately brings to mind just one kind of "doing" to many people, and even the simple statement, "Let's spend some time together" (or "share activities") similarly signals sexual meanings for "together" and "activities." So one has to be careful in speaking these days when SEX so pervades our consciousness!!

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In Shakespeare's time, the verb "lie" had a secondary slang or "off-color" sexual meaning that survives to this day in the sentence, "I got laid." Hamlet's use of "country matters" refers to this sexual meaning, with the word "country" having overtones of "crude" (like farm animals). As a side issue, the word "die" in Shakespeare's time also had a secondary sexual meaning that comes up in the poetry of John Donne in the 1600's. With sex being pervasive in human experience, it's interesting how many words "take on" sexual overtones or connotations. For example, "Let's do it" immediately brings to mind just one kind of "doing" to many people, and even the simple statement, "Let's spend some time together" (or "share activities") similarly signals sexual meanings for "together" and "activities." So one has to be careful in speaking these days when SEX so pervades our consciousness!!

Mel

Also, the first syllable of "country" in prounounced the same as a crude expression for the female genitals -- both in Shakespeare's day in in our own time.

玄子 Dude the Obscure

She thinks he wants to bang her..but he really wants to just lay there..

TiP

Also, the first syllable of "country" in prounounced the same as a crude expression for the female genitals -- both in Shakespeare's day in in our own time.

玄子 Dude the Obscure

She thinks he wants to bang her..but he really wants to just lay there..

TiP

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