Langauge In Hamlets Soliloquy
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THis speech occurs at the end of II,ii after Hamlet has witnessed a travelling player recite lines from an old play dealing with the destructiopn of Troy. The lines relate to the grief of queen Hecuba for her husband, King Priam, killed by Pyrrhus. Hamlet is so impressed by the emotion engenderted ....
Middle of paper
.... in the shortline 'Yet I' which forces the actor speaking pause before launching into the self condemnation of the next section.
Here the alliteration of 'muddy, mettled' adds to the impression of confusion with vivid verbs such as 'breaks,' 'plucks'and 'tweaks' supply metaphorical assaults suffered by Hamlet.
In describing claudius, Hamlet uses twowords, 'bloody'and 'bawdy',which sum up the king's evil nature as he is both a murderer and the seducer of Hamlet's mother. The repetition of ' ....
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