Why Does Shakespeare Use Of Language In Hamlet

Hamlet is much more clever than those that surround him: he mocks people without them knowing they are being insulted. He has a much superior understanding of language than almost every other character in the play and uses his wit to make fun of them, especially in death. While his humor is insensitive and unfair, Hamlet uses it to cope with his unresolvable feelings. While he does have a heightened sense of language, he lacks emotional intelligence. Though he is self aware, the majority of the time his awareness of himself leads to self-hate and anger put outwards on others. He is hypocritical, paradoxical, and self-loathing. especially women for their femininity, and the way he thinks that everything is becomes actuality. Everything Hamlet believes to be true is true in this play: He mocks those around him and therefore marks them as inferior, he exists as he is because of what he and others believe, and his
He is ignorant towards the complexity of his inferiors, claiming he cannot perform tasks so indelicate as gravedigging because of his emotional intelligence. Ironically, he has been insensitively joking about death the entire play, and most heavily in the final act: he throws skulls about and kicks bones out of his way, he mocks the grave of his girlfriend, he is disrespectful of every death he indirectly causes. He fails to see others as complex when they do not have the same grasp of language as he, and this leads him to feel very alone in his struggles. He heavily looks down upon everyone around him especially those of lower societal place or lower intelligence, which is why he is so horrified by the gravedigger’s ability to win in a game of wordplay. The grave digger is the only person in the play who can match Hamlet’s wit, and Hamlet is ashamed and confused that a man of much less intelligence would be able to best him in