During the scene, Shakespeare implements various dialogues and soliloquy to enhance the moods and achieve crucial dramatic purposes. Plot development, character development, pathos, atmosphere, foreshadowing, and irony are employed explicitly throughout to enforce dramatic importance and to maintain the interest of the audience Plot development is evident when the King finally confesses his commitment in the murder of his brother in his soliloquy. ... The scene has two specific atmospheres: a sense of secrecy and tension. ... Conversely, the internal struggle of Hamlet when he is presented wi...

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In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, he creates different scenes that contrast the previous scene. ... Shakespeare has created a somber mood already which adds to 5.1 right off by talking about a graveyard. However, it is at this point that Shakespeare twists the play's mood. ... Still lightheartedly, he starts to move the play to a different mood. ... The dark humor of the first half provides a relaxation of the atmosphere, which is definitely needed after Ophelia's death and the complexities of the plot. ...

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Shakespeare uses time and place in order to create a dystopian and corrupt Denmark, and further uses time and place as an instrument to gradually illuminate and uncover the corruptive morality of the personalities within Hamlet. ... In Act 1, Denmark is illustrated as an atmosphere of suspicion, this is seen in Act 1 Scene 2 as Francisco states that due to the metaphorical "bitter cold" nature of Denmark, he has become "sick at heart" leading to the representation of the state as an infectious root for corruption, further expounded as Marcellus illustrates with visual image...

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