How does the motif of disease and decay in this
passage relate to a larger theme in the play?
[Hamlet:) It will but skin and film the ulcerous place,
Whiles rank corruption, mining all within,
Infects unseen. Confess yourself to heaven;
Repent what's past; avoid what is to come;
And do not spread the compost on the weeds
To make them ranker.
-Hamlet,
William Shakespeare
It highlights the idea that the strongest bond is the
one between father and son.
It reminds the audience that the government of
Denmark is rotten and corrupt.
It suggests that people can never truly understand
one another
It emphasizes the fact that King Hamlet died after a
long illness.