Hamlet says that "a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear." Given that "knavish" means "dishonest," who is the knave and who is the fool? Explain your answer.

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Nasir

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19 May, 18:13

Hamlet says that "a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear." Given that "knavish" means "dishonest," who is the knave and who is the fool? Explain your answer.

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Craig Velez · Answer 1

A dishonest person is someone who is not honest, we can say is someone who lies and from the question above, a dishonest person is knave.

A foolish ear is someone who is not wise, someone who is not wise to detect foolish statements, dishonest or unwise statements and such person can be regarded as a fool.

So to reframe the above statement by hamlet, " an unwise ear will always listen to a dishonest mouth.