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Laertes expresses his desire to return to France. Polonius gives his son permission, and Claudius jovially grants Laertes his consent as well.
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Affecting a tone of fatherly advice, Claudius declares that all fathers die, and all sons must lose their fathers. He expains it is unmanly to mourn for too long.
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Alone, Hamlet exclaims that he wishes he could die, that he could evaporate and cease to exist. He wishes bitterly that God had not made suicide a sin.
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