Hamlet

Act 3, Sc. 2, lines 228-244: Explain Hamlet's purpose in lines 238-244.

Hamlet. It would cost you a groaning to take off my edge.

Ophelia. Still better, and worse.

Hamlet. So you must take your husbands. Begin, murderer.

Leave thy damnable faces and begin. Come the croaking

raven doth bellow for revenge.

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Hamlet is being sexually aggressive towards Ophelia in order to humiliate her. Although this might be part of his plan to act mentally unbalanced we can surmise this has more to do with his issues against women, arising from his issues with Gertrude.

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