Regarding Hamlet?

Question

I feel a little dumb for asking, but I've never been quite clear on the last line of his soliloquy, "be all my sins remembered".

Was he saying that his cruelness towards Ophelia should not be forgiven? I just have trouble coming up with a modern day phrase that amounts to the same thing. The language is sort of lost on me.

Answer 1

by sins he may be refering to the things he'd done that without the proper perspective would be viewed as sins. Causing his mother's death, driving Ophilia mad, killing her father, his uncle, her brother..... without knowing that he's avenging his father's death and under his dead father's orders, you'd think he was the villian. Thought it may just be that he doesn't want to be made into some kind of hero just because he's dead. That he wishes to be remembered as a flawed individual and not some sort of heroic lie.