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"Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"

Hamlet, Act V, Scene 2

The tragedy of Hamlet is the prime example of Shakespeare's Christian humanism. These are Horatio's words over Hamlet, who has just died.

But in the prior scene, Hamlet has assured Horatio that "there's a divinity that shapes our ends, / Rough-hew them how we will." After he accepts Laertes' challenge to a duel, he again speaks of his new-found confidence and sense of destiny to his friend: "There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all." After all the confusion, indecision, and displacements of the previous four acts, Hamlet has grown into a hero, content to act upon his conviction and face his fate.

So Hamlet, wounded by the poison rapier of Laertes, but still able to rid Denmark of the "rotten" King Caludius, faces his own death with equanimity. He asserts that Denmark will once again thrive under the leadership of the strong King Fortinbras; then he bids farwell: "the rest is silence." Horatio speaks this eulogy over him.

Hamlet is, in my opinion, Shakespeare's most moving and most noble tragedy, and Hamlet his most admirable, but realistic hero. "Good night, sweet prince."

2006-08-17 17:33:55 · answer #1 · answered by bfrank 5 · 1 0

Hamlet

2006-08-18 00:09:52 · answer #2 · answered by john wayne gretzky 2 · 0 0

It is from Hamlet and it always reminds me of that quote from the Movie Cider House Rules:

"Goodnight, you princes of Maine. You kings of New England."
Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine) -

2006-08-18 02:23:14 · answer #3 · answered by hrh_gracee 5 · 0 0

Hamlet.

2006-08-18 00:08:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

It is part of the closing line of "Hamlet" who is dead. That is a long sleep.

2006-08-18 00:11:59 · answer #5 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0 0

Hamlet cuz i think his wife was talking to him and before his wife was going to kill the king while the king was sleeping.

2006-08-18 00:10:50 · answer #6 · answered by nic 5 · 0 0

hamlet. i think horatio says it.

2006-08-18 00:09:54 · answer #7 · answered by Leslie D 4 · 0 0

romeo and juliet

2006-08-18 03:24:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

telmah may be figure it out

2006-08-21 01:07:38 · answer #9 · answered by lucifer 1 · 0 0

hamlet... it rocks

2006-08-18 02:00:57 · answer #10 · answered by ...m-k... 2 · 0 0

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