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What is the setting of Hamlet , and how does it contribute to the overall feel of the play?

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Thank you We sneak in Shakespeare's hamlet setting Alas shmoop

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What is this setting And how does it contribute to

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the overall feel of the place Setting the whole way

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through is just the castle Obviously it's helpful in terms

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of setting setting up the set right but there's also

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this sense of claustrophobia in the play that i think

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it's interesting to think about So much of it is

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about hamlets introspection and him dealing with his thoughts about

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this and that and also about odd attraction like his

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uncle has to his brother's wife and also that hamilton's

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efforts mother and that ophelia and where to use that

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seem to have something going on So right so this

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sense that everything is kind of too close on there

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isn't space debris There's this place really think outside yourself

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there's a space to like marry outside your immediate clan

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that's all kind of wrapped up in this setting What

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is this setting And how does it contribute to the 00:01:01.957 --> [endTime] overall feel of the play

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