Re: The Bible is False (was: Morality of Bible)

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From: John Fleming
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 05:53

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On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 04:15:30 GMT, while chained to a desk in the
scriptorium, Opus- <jbuchy@telus.net> wrote:

> $ To illustrate the difficulty, take a look at Shakespears Hamlet. In
> $the third act of Hamlet, just after the famous "To be, or not to be"
> $soliloquy, Hamlet says to Ophelia, "Get thee to a nunnery." 
> $In Elizabethan England, nunnery was common slang for a brothel.
> $Does Hamlet want Ophelia to go to a convent or to a bordello? Either
> $meaning fits the context. Hamlet could be worried that Ophelia was
> $likely to become "a breeder of sinners" and should remove herself from
> $the temptations of the world by withdrawing into religion. Or �
> $considering the presence of words such as harlot, and bawd in the
> $immediate context, and considering that Hamlet decries Ophelia's
> $"wantonness" � it is plausible that Hamlet, in disgust, was telling
> $Ophelia to join the world's oldest profession. 

It's also quite possible that Shakespeare meant this as a play on
words--an Elizabethan pun so to speak   This would add a moment of
humour to an otherwise somber drama.  The audience of the time, being
familiar with both interpretations could have roared with laughter.

--
John Fleming
Edmonton, Canada

     A Dreamer is One Who Can Only Find Her
     Way by Moonlight.

          -- Oscar Wilde

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