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What is Hamlet expressing in this philosophical speech? To answer that question, consider the following: Augury is the art of reading objects (such as tea leaves) to predict the future. In Ancient Greece, one method used by augurs to foretell the future was to interpret the flight of birds.
My lord, his majesty commended him to you by young Osric, who brings back to him that you attend him in the hall. He sends to know if your pleasure hold to play with Laertes, or that you will take longer time.
In Hamlet's simple yet profound assertion that the readiness is all (line 208), we again see the influence of Montaigne on Shakespeare, particularly his essay, "That to philosophize is to learn how to die." Note the following quotation from Montaigne's essay and compare it to Hamlet's philosophy:
If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come—the readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ’t to leave betimes? Let be.
2 Ιουν 2020 · Act 5, scene 2. In the hall of the castle, Hamlet tells Horatio how he discovered the king’s plot against him and how he turned the tables on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Osric enters to ask, on Claudius’s behalf, that Hamlet fence with Laertes. Hamlet agrees to the contest, despite his misgivings.
readiness is all. Since no man of aught he leaves knows, what is ’t to leave betimes? Let be. Two seconds later a Lord enters and says, "Well, are you coming?" Apparently the duel is taking place: Right. Now. Hamlet agrees to go, but Horatio has a bad feeling about all of this. He tells Hamlet he's going to lose. Hamlet says he doesn't think so.
Before they duel, Hamlet takes the opportunity to apologize to Laertes for his insane behavior, but Laertes wants to go through with the fight no matter what because his reputation is on the line. Laertes selects the poisoned and sharpened rapier, and the two go at it.
