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Primrose path is a metaphor for the easy and pleasant road to hell, contrasted with the narrow and steep path to heaven. Learn how Shakespeare uses this image in Hamlet, Macbeth and All's Well That Ends Well, and its origin and influence in literature and culture.
Primrose path is a phrase from Shakespeare that means the pleasant route through life, of pleasure and dissipation. Learn how he used it in Hamlet and Macbeth, and see related expressions and contrasts.
Learn the meaning and origin of the phrase "the primrose path" from Hamlet, Act 1, scene 3. Find out how Ophelia uses it to mock her brother Laertes and how it differs from "the garden path".
2. Juni 2020 · Hamlet is Shakespeare's most popular, and most puzzling, play. It follows the form of a "revenge tragedy," in which the hero, Hamlet, seeks vengeance against his father's murderer, his uncle Claudius, now the king of Denmark. Much of its fascination, however,….
8. Juli 2021 · Learn about the legends, myths, symbolism and history of the primrose, a flower that appears in seven of Shakespeare's plays. Discover how the primrose was used in art, medicine, folklore and royalty.
But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whiles, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance...
Shakespeare coined the now familiar phrase "primrose path" in Hamlet which he wrote a few years before Macbeth. It describes taking the easy hedonistic path in life which ends in ruin instead of the arduous righteous life which leads to religious salvation in heaven.
