Hamlet shows a variety of emotions as he suffers to absorb and comprehend all that has happened and is happening in Ellsinore. He passionately verbalizes his examination of his circumstances, his position, and his life. The overlaying emotion throughout his soliloquy is grief and pain. His hurt begins to turn to sarcasm and judgment against her saying that even a "beast that wants discourse of reason, would have mourn'd longer", for her "most unrighteous tears" and to condemn her for her marriage with "most wicked speed, to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!" Mel Gibson’s body movements seemed rigid and weak. These physical expressions clearly portrayed how much Hamlet was suffering that he genuinely believed that suicide was a better alternative than a life of pain.

2. Give examples of two different types of language and identify the relationship among the speakers.

3. Give example of allusion. In Hamlet, when Horatio says, "ere the mightiest Julius fell," the allusion is to the death of Julius Caesar. The ghost is also related to allusions in Hamlet. Three other Shakespeare plays have ghosts as characters: Julius

In Act II scene 2 Hamlet compares the essence of humanity to dust as describes earth and humanity as merely “quintessence of dust”. This particular metaphor made a very powerful statement. After describing the world as a majestic and incredible place and the center of humanity, Hamlet asserts in a cold and cynical tone just how meaningless and empty it is to him by using dust as a comparison. Hamlet describes it as, “…weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable”. His descriptive, and negative, comparisons to the world conveyed his true belief that suicide was a better option than a life lived in such a world. In Act III scene 5 where Hamlet, during his famous soliloquy, compares sleep with death. Hamlet: “the heartache of a thousand natural shocks”. Hamlet's first words in the play show him playing with words in order to state a paradox: "A little more than kin, and less than kind". Claudius is twice related to him, as uncle and stepfather, but not really his kin or kind at all. Shakespeare uses several hyperboles throughout the play. For example, at the burial of Ophelia, her brother Laertes leaps into her grave and asks that the earth be piled on both of them "Till of this flat a mountain you have made"; at which Hamlet then outdoes Laertes figuratively by calling for "millions of acres" to be piled on all three. In Act III scene 3 Hamlet says, “That his soul may be as damn'd and black

As hell, whereto it goes.” This speech Hamlet, represented as a virtuous character, uses a simile to express his extreme hatred by comparing the soul of a human being to the dark depths of hell. Earlier in the play Horatio says: “But look, the morn in russet mantle clad/ Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.” This quote is another example of Shakespeare’s gift as a writer. Personification is used to describe the sunrise. It is a beautiful way of saying the sunrise made the morning sky red. The beauty of the language also demonstrates Horatio’s level of intelligence. He is an eloquent speaker and is referred to throughout the play as a scholar.

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