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1.  The comparison is of a pastor preaching and not following what he preaches (think the Pardoner)

2. Ophelia says this because Laertes has just given her advice on Hamlet and to stay away from him. In saying this, Ophelia comments that Laertes needs to take his own advice too.

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1.This passage compares Gertrude following her fathers body to a crying Niobe.

2.She is unable to be consoled or persuaded to stop grieving her fathers death.

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1. This passage is comparing the ghost's hands and old Hamlet's hands.
2. The importance of this is illustrating how this ghost might actually be the ghost of Hamlet's dead father. Its evidence that the ghost isn't the devil.

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1. Hamlet compares his skin to dirtiness or maybe sinful in itself. He doesn't see a point in living no more for which he has done bad things and blames himself for his father's death.
2. Hamlets also compares his skin to vapor in this quote because he wants to die. If he does commit suicide this would disobey Gods law in John 12:25. The reason he wants to commit suicide is because of his fathers death. Also, at the same time he is saying he is frozen and wants to be melted and evaporated into the sky and be taking away from Earth for which he can't deal with his father's death.

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1- The clouds are being compared to the feeling of depression Hamlet is experiencing.
2- It foreshadows that Hamlet cannot deal with his grief and he will remain in his depressed state for the entirety of the play.

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1.) His mortal life and a garden

2.) What this means to the current act is that he's depressed and that to him his life is an "unweeded garden," that it's a wild mess and it is meaningless to him. Hamlet is depressed about his father's death and his mother's marriage to his uncle no less than two months after.

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1.) The passage compares Laertes' advice to a watch man of Ophelia's heart.

2.) The advice and the watchman both serve to protect Ophelia's heart from destruction. Also Laertes tells Ophelia that Hamlet is a prince and his kingdom comes first.

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1. This passage is comparing freshness of spring and Claudius's memories of his brother.
2. Since spring is a time of growth and newness its similar to how Claudius is remembering his brother and how he wants to advance his kingdom without lingering on his brother death.

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Ophelia requesting Laertes heed his own advice (I,iii)

"But good my brother,
Do not as some good pastors do, /
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, /
Whiles like a puffed and reckless libertine /
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads."

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Horatio telling Hamlet about seeing the ghost (I,iv)

"The apparition comes.  I knew your father; /
These hands are not more alike

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Horatio referring to the rooster's crow (I,i)

"The cock, that is trumpet to the morn"

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Claudius referring to King Hamlet's death (I,ii)

"Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death /
The memory be green."

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1-The passage compares a rooster to a trumpet

2-Consider the inherent symbolism of each; a rooster and a trumpet both create alarm to act.  Elsinore should be prepared for many things to come- and as for Act I, they worry of war with Norway.

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Hamlet contemplating life and death (I,ii)

"O that this too too solid flesh would melt, /
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew"

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Claudius addressing Hamlet's melancholy (I,ii)

"How is it that the clouds still hang on you?"

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Hamlet commenting upon Gertrude's grief (I,ii)

"...she followed my poor father's body, /
Like a Niobe all tears..."

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Hamlet continuing to contemplate mortal life (I,ii)

"How weary, stale, flat,a nd unprofitable /
Seem to me the uses of the world! /
Fie on't, ah fie, 'tis an unweeded garden /
That grows to seed, things rank and gross in nature /
Possess it merely"

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Ophelia promising to heed Laertes' advice (I,iii)

"I shall the effect of this good lesson keep /
As watchman of my heart."