Close read Hamlet's speech in Act 1 Scene 2 lines 133-164. Pay close attention to metaphors, motifs (nature, food/eating), allusions (especially mythological allusions), repetition (as revision), and other figurative language.
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Famous literary critic Harold Bloom claims that Hamlet is "always about to be," and that "tentativeness is the peculiar mark of his endlessly burgeoning consciousness; if he cannot know himself, wholly, that is because he is a breaking wave of sensibility, of thought and feeling pulsating onward." He also suggests that Hamlet spends most of his time "self-revising." Where can we go in Act I to substantiate Bloom's claims? How might we complicate them?
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