Original artwork, not a still
Hamlet ‧ 1602
I hold ambition of so light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow.
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker makes ambition seem almost weightless by calling it a shadow of a shadow. The doubled image reduces something already insubstantial even further. It conveys a dismissive view of striving, treating what might seem important as something barely tangible.
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