Hamlet describes this dialogue where in he uses simile and metaphor and urges the ghost to be swift, when the ghost is going to disclose the secret of his father’s murder. In it, wings are used. It is symbolized for bird and he wishes to reach the murderer quickly before thought or meditation in order to take revenge.
As that hamlet is a noble prince and possesses quite discriminated qualities, he is afraid of his tendency to love or his thought of love may extinguish his feelings of revenge:
Haste me to know`t that I with wings as swift
As meditation or the thought of love
My sweep to my revenge.
He wants to perform his job speedily as that love or any thought may not interfere. It will bring resistance between me and my revenge.
Sunday, December 7, 2014
In act 1, scene 5 of Hamlet, what does the character Hamlet mean by "wings as swift as meditation"?
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