All 9 Uses
afflict
in
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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- The exterior and inward man fails to resemble GUIL: Draw him on to pleasures-glean what afflicts him.†
Act 1afflicts = causes suffering
- Glean what afflicts him.†
Act 1
- He's afflicted.
Act 1 *afflicted = suffering from something
- ROS: Are you afflicted?†
Act 1afflicted = suffering; or made to suffer
- GUIL: I'm afflicted.†
Act 1
- GUIL: Glean what afflicts me.†
Act 1afflicts = causes suffering
- GUIL: Afflicted!†
Act 1afflicted = suffering; or made to suffer
- We have to glean what afflicts him.†
Act 2afflicts = causes suffering
- We, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, from our young days brought up with him, awakened by a man standing on his saddle, are summoned, and arrive, and are instructed to glean what afflicts him and draw him on to pleasures, such as a play, which unfortunately, as it turns out, is abandoned in some confusion owing to certain nuances outside our appreciation —which, among other causes, results in, among other effects, a high, not to say, homicidal, excitement in Hamlet, whom we, in consequence, are escorting, for his own good, to England.†
Act 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(afflict) to cause pain, suffering, or trouble -- especially something long-lasting or hard to endure
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)