A fish cutter is usually an expert in the processing and preparation of seafood. As a fish cutter, you may also work as a meat butcher, or you may specialize only in seafood. Skip to content What does fishmonger mean in Hamlet? Does fishmonger mean pimp? As nouns the difference between pimp and fishmonger is that pimp is a man who solicits customers for prostitution and acts as manager for prostitutes; a panderer while fishmonger is british a person who sells fish a female fishmonger can also be called a fishwife.
Is Hamlet in love with Ophelia? What is a kissing carrion? For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a good kissing carrion— Have you a daughter? Since if the sun breeds maggots on a dead dog, kissing the corpse—by the way, do you have a daughter? Let her not walk i' th' sun.
Then by all means never let her walk in public. Procreation is a good thing, but if your daughter gets pregnant … look out, friend. Still harping on my daughter. Yet he knew me not at first. He said I was a fishmonger. Of course it means one who sells fish, a rather low class profession at the time. In this case Hamlet accuses Polonius of selling his daughter off for information about Hamlet. You are a fishmonger.
While literal meaning of fishmonger is one who sells fish, the word connotes other meanings: Those who sold fish were of the lower class and loud and loquacious, so Hamlet insults the courtier Polonius, suggesting that he is one who trades in a cheap way with frivolous words. If something can be said in one sentence, Polonius will say it in a paragraph; if something can be spoken in 30 seconds, Polonius will speak it in 5 minutes.
It is likely that Hamlet really was in love with Ophelia. Readers know Hamlet wrote love letters to Ophelia because she shows them to Polonius.
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