In Hamlet's first Soliloquy how does Shakespeare use imagery, language and sentence structure to portray Hamlet's state of mind? In Hamlet's first soliloquy it is painfully obvious that he is suffering great mental anguish. In all parts of his speech, ... with her is changing for the worse. He is disgusted by her incest but more so by her lack of grieving. Hamlet's anger at Gertrude becomes obvious through his disjointed, emotive language which also illustrate the unstable state of his mind. Shakespeare uses the image of Niobe to demonstrate just how great the change in Gertrude has been. At...

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