It means that every reader has a different interpretation of Hamlet, so the characters of Hamlet in the minds of 1, readers are also different. To describe the same thing, everyone has different opinions.

"Ten thousand readers have ten thousand Hamlets" is a famous saying of Shakespeare.

Different readers will have different interpretations of the same artistic image because of their different life experiences, education levels, hobbies and so on. What it emphasizes is actually the personality problem of reading experience. A person's understanding of things is restricted by subjective initiative, knowledge and other factors, so his views on the same thing will be different.

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A sentence with similar meaning "There are 1, Hamlets for 1, readers"

Benevolent people have different opinions, and wise people have different opinions

It means that benevolent people look at it from the perspective of benevolence and wise people look at it from the perspective of wisdom. Metaphor means that different people have different views on the same problem from different positions or angles. Different people understand things from different angles, just as a Buddhist sees nature clearly. Those who have benevolence in their hearts will examine and explore the benevolent side of things from the benevolent perspective, and the wise will examine and explore the intelligent side of things from the intelligent side.

It is from The Book of Changes: A Cohesion by Zhou Wenwang and Ji Chang in the Western Zhou Dynasty. The original excerpt is as follows:

One yin and one yang is called Tao. Those who succeed are good, and those who succeed are also human. The benevolent sees it as benevolence, the knower sees it as knowledge, and the people do not know it for daily use, so the way of a gentleman is fresh.

The contradiction, opposition and unity of change of one yin and one yang are the "Tao" or regularity of things' development. What inherits this "Tao" is beauty and goodness, and what achieves this "Tao" is the inherent essence of things.

People who are kind-hearted find only "benevolence" from this "Tao", while those who are wise find only "wisdom" from this "Tao". People use this "Tao" every day but are ignorant, so the "Tao" of reaching a compatible gentleman is even less known.