| Act III, Scene iv
"Hamlet: Have you eyes? Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed, And batten on this moor? Ha! have you eyes? " (This next one is a painfully obvious example) Act III, Scene i "Hamlet: To be, or not to be"
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Shakespeare uses rhetorical questions in this play to make points and give the audience something to think about. In the first quote Hamlet uses it to chastise his mother and hopefully get across the point that what she did/is doing with Claudius is bad. He's basically saying 'don't you see what you're doing?!". In the second quote Hamlet is asking this question and it's purpose is to give the audience his conflicting thoughts of life/death,and action/doing nothing. This question is actually one of the most important lines of the play.
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