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Why is act 3 scene 1 so important in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet ?

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Hamlet suggests that beauty can transform honesty into a “bawd,” but honesty cannot make a sinful woman pure once more. “I did love you once,” Hamlet tells Ophelia, and she retorts that Hamlet only made her believe that he did.

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