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Prose In Hamlet
While reading Shakespeare you can definitely pick up on his different styles and tone. He uses parts of speech like prose, poetry, metaphors, similes, and other types of speech to convey the story. Prose is a low class way of speaking in this time period. When characters use prose you know they are not of Royal descent or are just speaking calmly to share something about the character like Hamlet sometimes does. How noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form, in moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? (2.2.327-332) In this direct quote from the book he is speaking in prose because …show more content…
When he finds out the King Claudius might have killed King Hamlet he has to go undercover to find out if it is the truth. To do this he pretends like he is losing it after his fathers death. This fools many of the other characters, like Polonius. The spirit that I have seen May be the devil, and the devil hath power T' assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps, Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. (2.2.627-632). In this you can see that he could have actually slipped into insanity, but from other texts you could argue that he is acting. I think is a very interesting topic because you can never be completely sure if mentally he is always there, it can always be argued. I really think that if he did slip into madness then it would make Hamlet more human and to the readers. It would be considered normal for a person to be very upset if their father died and then their mother remarried very soon after. It can all be a very traumatic experience and I love the way Shakespeare wrote it all.

I seem to admire Shakespeare in the way he lets metaphors flow into his work seamlessly. He uses metaphors to compare one thing to another or to exaggerate something. O, my offense is rank, it smells to heaven (3.3.40). This is one of many examples of a metaphor in which he compares all of his sins to how high heaven must be above the earth. Metaphors are a great writing technique, they help readers understand the description and how to view an item or

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