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Foul deeds will rise though all the earth o’erwhelm them to men’s eyes. who said that in hamlet and what is the meaning

Answer 1

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In, the following extract from the Shakespearean Play - Hamlet:-

"Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."

-- Hamlet himself is the speaker, soliloquising the following lines alone on the platform.

[ o'erwhelm them ] i.e., cover them up. From Middle English whelmen (to cover up or engulf). ]

The Above Mentioned Extract's Meaning:-

Hamlet's rhyming couplet concludes one of the most intense scenes in the play. Horatio has just revealed to Hamlet that the ghost of Hamlet's father has appeared on the platform and Hamlet is desperate to meet with the ghost himself, hoping to confirm Claudius is responsible for his death. Claudius's "foul deeds will rise"; his guilt will not be kept hidden.

Hamlet's belief in this divine justice gives him the strength to push forward - to use all his intellectual gifts to catch Claudius in his guilt. It is not difficult to understand why the Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard Furness concluded these are the pivotal lines in the play: "The dogma, that 'Foul deeds will rise though all the earth o'erwhelm them to men's eyes,' is proved here with fearful import. By this fundamental idea is Hamlet to be explained" (Line: 298).

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Answer 2

Hey!

"Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."

Here, Hamlet himself is the speaker.