Paradox“I must be cruel to be kind.”
In this excerpt of Hamlet by Shakespeare, Hamlet says that he "must be cruel to be kind." This is a paradox because he thinks that the murder of Claudius will be good for his mother. Hamlet is talking about his mother, and how he intends to kill Claudius to avenge his father's death.
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PUNWilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,
Which was my sin, though it were done before? Wilt thou forgive that sin, through which I run, And do run still, though still I do deplore? When thou hast done, thou hast not done, For I have more. The highlighted portion of this excerpt provides an example of a pun. Donne is known to use puns in his poems to be against him. His wife's name is Anne More, so he uses her last name in this poem to provide a pun.
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