Diet Of Worms In Hamlet

In act 4 scene 3 hamlet is asked where polonius is hamlet has murdered him and answers.

Diet of worms in hamlet. An explanation of the allusion to the diet of worms in act 4 scene 3 of myshakespeare s hamlet. Your worm is your only emperor for diet. King claudius at supper. Your worm is your only emperor for diet.

He had first set his beliefs forth in wittenberg where hamlet and horatio have studied. A certain convocation of politic worms are e en at him. A certain convocation of politic worms are e en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet.

The king knowing that polonius is dead asks hamlet what he means to which he curtly gives this riposte. Hamlet not where he eats but where he is eaten. Convocation of politic worms a political assembly of worms. Diet of worms meeting of the diet assembly of the holy roman empire held at worms germany in 1521 made famous by martin luther s appearance before it to respond to charges of heresy.

How could shakespeare resist. An allusion to the diet of worms 1521 a convocation held by the catholic church to allow martin luther to explain his reform of doctrine. Pick out a line or two and articulate the point hamlet or shakespeare is making about politics monarchy social hierarchy the diet of worms or other themes. An imperial diet was a formal deliberative assembly of the whole empire.

In act 4 scene 3 hamlet answers claudius s questions about polonius s whereabouts with riddles and obfuscations about worms. We fat all creatures else to fat us and we fat ourselves for maggots. Shakespeare was a man of the elizabethan era in england the period in which. Because of the confused political and religious situation of the time luther was called before the political.

Shakespeare too played on this ambiguity in his tragedy hamlet. Reichstag zu worms ˈʁaɪçstaːk tsuː ˈvɔɐms was an imperial diet assembly of the holy roman empire called by emperor charles v it was held at the heylshof garden in worms then an imperial free city of the empire. Hamlet says that polonius is being eaten by these politic worms. Not where he eats but where a is eaten.

A certain convocation of politic worms are e en at him. This one is most memorable for the edict of worms wormser edikt. Worms is the city in which the catholic church held a meeting called a diet resulting in the church s decision to excommunicate luther who also happened to be professor of theology at the university of wittenberg. Hamlet s comment has to be a play on martin luther s appearance at the diet of worms in 1521.