... disguise, to make a disgrace out of the whole world. 2) In Act 1, part 5, Hamlet shows many different sides to himself because of the great lost that he has experienced. In lines 130 to 157 he shows how he finds his mother marrying his father's brother. Though this breaks his heart he must keep a rein on his tongue. He is shy and backs ... away from people much more than he did before. 3) The soliloquy that I choose was also Act 1, part 5, lines 130 to 157. In this part of the play he speaks of his fathers death and shows how after only two months he don't believe people can be so happy...

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... imagery is figurative language. It is used to increase shock, novelty, appearance, or illustrative consequences. Example- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate (Shakespeare, Sonnet #18) Purpose- This is one of Shakespeare's many extended metaphors. He is comparing someone to a summer day, and in doing so he uses many comparisons. This example of figurative language ... ...

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... side holds substantial pieces of evidence in their favor, and one additional verification could tip the scale of truth in either direction. However, as long as the love for these sonnet, poem, and play masterpieces remains, the question of "Who Wrote Shakespeare" will always be debated. ...

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... terms, from this time forth, have you so slander any moment leisure, as to give words or talk with the Lord Hamlet. Look to 't, I charge you. Come your ways" (1.3.130). Polonius orders Ophelia to stay clear of Hamlet regardless of the love she has for him. Due to the respect and her obedience, Ophelia makes this personal sacrifice for her ... ...

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... . At the opening of the play Hamlet is shown to be a character of great depression, who wants nothing more than to "resolve into a dew" as if he had never existed (1.2.130). Hamlet proclaims, "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world"(1.2.133-134). In contrast, a changed Hamlet, near the closing of the play, shouts ... ...

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... the castle to return his letters. "Where's your father?" "Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool nowhere but in's own house. (Act 3, Scene 1, Line 130, 133-134). Hamlet will not let Polonious play him as a fool in his own house. Through out William Shakespeare's play, "Hamlet," Hamlet thinks up a plot of him acting crazy, or ... ...

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... thee to a nunnery" or lines 138-139, "God has / given you one face and you make yourselves another." Ophelia responds with such exclaims as "O, help him, you sweet heavens!" (line 130) or "O heavenly powers, restore him!" (line 137). Ophelia exits the conversation with the exclamation in lines 155-156, "O, woe is me, / To have seen what I have seen, see what I see ... ...

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... is used to help comprehend the depression Hamlet feels in his first soliloquy about suicide. "O that this too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew," (I;ii, 129-130) Hamlet is basically communicating that he wishes not to exist in this world anymore. He wants to die and be apart of the ground. An image of Hamlet's flesh, rotting ... ...

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