... months dead-nay, not so much, not two" a spectator would receive a sense of Hamlet's despair and disbelief. The way the line is broken up by punctuation and the repetition of "not", creating a slight "n" alliteration give a feeling of desperation to Hamlet's words. Throughout the soliloquy Hamlet shortens the period of time between death and remarriage. It diminishes from nearly two months to "a little month ... in his speech conveying the idea that he is feeling the extremes of emotion. Shakespeare's use of exclamation marks to mark emphatic speech also show Hamlet's strong emotions. H...

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... the landowners etc. Women were taught from birth that they were inferior to men and once they married, the husband gained ownership of the wife and household. In this period it was considered incest for in-law brother and sister to be intimate in any way which was the relationship in which Claudius ... but the elder generation probably would've been astounded and possibly offended by such controversial breakthroughs in playwriting whilst modern generations could relate to sense of rebellion of not following to conventions or rules although the oedipal complex is questionable to many. It ...

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