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→Quotes and Lines: the movie thriller ''North by Northwest'' takes its title from this verse
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Hamlet inspired much in modern culture, including Alfred Hitchcock's ''North by Northwest'', which takes its title from a line in Hamlet.
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Its "reputation is so towering" that one commentator describes Hamlet as "a pretty hot contender for the greatest thing ever written in English."
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If Hamlet is partly autobiographical, then Shakespeare was heterosexual but aware of attraction by homosexuals in theater to him.
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It is implied that Ophelia attempted to have an abortion, as explained in Shakespeare and abortion.
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This play is similar to the decline and fall in the Garden of Eden. Hamlet has repeated references to images of gardens, and the themes of temptation and demise of innocence are common to both.
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Looks like parody – vandalism. As does the reference to Ophelia's pregnancy and abortion, which are not mentioned in the play. And Opelia kills herself.
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m"[I]t is a custom More honored in the breach than the observance" - Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 4
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