Shakespeare’s diction is the most influential aspect of his style. He uses it to familiarize his audience with his characters, and to deepen the thought and feeling of important themes. “Of all the authors in the English langua

Shakespeare’s diction also deepens the themes of his writing. He writes with a absurdly extensive vocabulary. His choice of words adds a unparagoned element to his writing. The feeling of disgust Hamlet feels for Claudius’ relationship with his mother is a common theme throughout the novel. Shakespeare adds emotion and depth to this theme through his formal and vivid language. “That blurs the grace and blush of modesty, Calls virtue hypocrite, takes off the rose from the fair forehead of an innocent love And sets a blister there, makes marriage vows As false as dicers’ oaths—O, such a deed as from the body of contraction plucks the very soul, and sweet religion makes a rhapsody of words. Heaven’s face does glow o’er this solidity and compound mass with tristful visage, as against the doom is thought-sick at the act.” (Act Three, Scene Four) Hamlet expresses his distaste and desire for revenge on his stepfather through his vivid language. His use of metaphor deepens the passion felt and the hatred expressed. He uses metaphor to show the theme of corruption and hatred. Hamlet has a deep-seated hatred for the man that is corrupting the innocence of his mother, and this theme couldn’t be expressed with power and emotion without the metaphor and description Shakespeare expresses through his diction.

Revenge is a common theme in Shakespearian plays, but it is expressed differently in Hamlet. Shakespeare writes in great detail about the insanity and madness of Hamlet after the death of his father and the appearance of the ghost. This detail is used to foreshadow the bloody and eminent conflict between the King and Hamlet. “Why, this is hire and salary, not revenge! He took my father grossly, full of bread, With all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May; And how his audit stands, who knows save heaven? But in our circumstance and course

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