All 9 Uses of
afflict
in
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- The exterior and inward man fails to resemble GUIL: Draw him on to pleasures-glean what afflicts him. xos: Something more than his father's deathGUIL: He's always talking about us-there aren't two people living whom he dotes on more than us. tens: We cheer him up-find out what's the matter GUIL: Exactly, it's a matter of asking the right questions and giving away as little as we can.†
Act 1
- Glean what afflicts him.†
Act 1
- He's afflicted.
Act 1 *afflicted = suffering from something
- ROS: Are you afflicted?†
Act 1
- ROS: Let's go back a bit. ouu,: I'm afflicted.†
Act 1
- GUIL: Glean what afflicts me.†
Act 1
- GUIL: Afflicted!†
Act 1
- We have to glean what afflicts him.†
Act 2
- 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…†
Act 3
Definition:
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(afflict) cause suffering -- such as illness, pain, or unhappiness