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All Ari knows is that Bernardo was always angry and it got him in trouble, and Ari understands that he lives in Bernardo’s shadow—Mom and Dad are afraid of Ari ending up in the same situation. Because of this secrecy, Ari only mentions Bernardo by name a few times in the novel and usually refers to him only as “my brother.”
On a dark winter night outside Elsinore Castle in Denmark, an officer named Bernardo comes to relieve the watchman Francisco. In the heavy darkness, the men cannot see each other. Bernardo hears a footstep near him and cries, “Who’s there?”
While he develops in a number of important ways, a few things remain the same: he desperately wants to figure out the titular “secrets of the universe,” and also thinks that being a teen in the throes of puberty is tragic.
For a number of reasons, this age gap makes Ari feel alone and like an afterthought—his sisters treat him like a child, not a peer, and Bernando is in prison and the family refuses to mention his name. Ari simply wants to know something about the family into which he was born.
Bernardo is the first to challenge Francisco because Bernardo has seen the ghost, along with Marcellus, and Francisco has not. Bernardo is much more on edge and worried because he fears...
Bernardo denies a consecutive sequence of events outside of the dissociated human mind, but then posits that following death, there is another event that happens in sequence after the moment of death, namely the reassociation of the dissociated alter into mind at large.
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First ClownYou lie out on’t, sir, and therefore it is not. yours: for my part, I do not lie in’t, and yet it is mine. HAMLET’Thou dost lie in’t, to be in’t and say it is thine: ’tis for the dead, not for the quick; therefore thou liest. First Clown’Tis a quick lie, sir; ’twill away gain, from me to. you.
