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Hamlet's Soliloquies.
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... Hamlet's Soliloquies To understand Shakespeare's plays, you need to understand life in those days. This includes religion, the chain of being, myths & magic, little and large and the way things where run. The main religion being practiced was protestant; people that where catholic where known to be 'potential traitors to their country.' This was all well and good, but when the puritans came, life was different. Protestants, Catholics, and puritans are all Christian based ways of life, with extreme beliefs. The most extreme group are the puritans. They believe anything that gives joy is a sin because they take your mind off god. They believed England's church hadn't gone far enough to its rejection to Catholicism. The kings and queens where thought to have 'divine right', this was the right given by god to rule a country. This belief started the chain of being; this is the hierarchy













