Act 1, Scene 5 - Video Note: "duty bound"

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Act 1,

Scene 5

Lines 5-8

A discussion of "duty bound" in Act 1, Scene 5 of myShakespeare's Hamlet.

myShakespeare | Hamlet 1.5 "Duty Bound"

Pity me not, but lend thy serious hearing

To what I shall unfold.

Speak. I am bound to hear.

So art thou to revenge when thou shalt hear.

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Video Transcript:

SARAH: Hamlet says that he's duty bound to hear out the ghost because he resembles his father, and he therefore owes it to his father's memory.

RALPH: The ghost replies that Hamlet will be equally duty bound to revenge once he has heard what the ghost has to say.