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  • Essay / Hamlet: Analytical Essay on Style - 850

    Hamlet has style. Hamlet as in the play, not the character, and the style not in terms of fashion and knowing how to dress, but as in the combination of different literary elements in order to capture this certain elegance in his writing. Shakespeare implements these different literary devices in order to improve his writing, usually to emphasize a specific point or to create a certain mood for a scene. In important passages of the play, there is usually an abundance of these devices. There are some that are more easily detectable and obvious, but there are also some that are more subtle and sophisticated. Soliloquies are often places for emphasis and are therefore mostly filled with literary devices. A particular passage in which there is an assortment of different devices that fit together well and reinforce his rage against his mother being with his uncle, begins in act 3, scene 4, line 53 with Hamlet's soliloquy, stating the difference between her father, Hamlet, and her uncle, Claudius, to Gertrude. Perhaps the most obvious literary devices that Shakespeare relies on to illustrate Hamlet's anger at his mother's new marriage come in the dual forms of repetition and hyperbolic clauses. Hamlet is stunned that his mother, married to such a respected and competent man, would marry such a hated and untalented man. He still acts crazy and launches into a speech about the contrasting aspects of the two men. Hamlet believes that his father, Hamlet, is clearly above Claudius in every way. The repetition of “Do you have eyes?” » draws your attention to the fact that Hamlet has become angry and does not care that he is disrespecting his mother by asking her for a qu...... middle of paper .... ..e 4, line 93, “No, but to live / In the sweat of a soggy bed, / Cooked in corruption, cherishing and making love / On the wicked stye.” » One of the most used sounds in this sentence was the "s" in "sweat", "seamèd", "stew" and "sty". All of these words along with the "d" sounds create a mood that portrays Hamlet as being angry and disgusted by his mother's actions. The writing style creates a special connotation that the author could not have captured otherwise. Shakespeare implements countless literary devices throughout the play and concentrates them especially in the soliloquies because they tend to emphasize the importance of the passage and help us feel the tone of the scene. All the literally scattered devices in Hamlet's soliloquy in Act 3, Scene 4 allowed us to get a full sense of his anger and truly observe his disgust..