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A 3 page paper which examines the descriptive language and the imagery in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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It is an incredible play that truly offers the reader/viewer many examples of imagery and the power of descriptive language. In truth, one can see the visual possibilities for a
stage production when reading the play and one senses many emotions such as tension, fear, and other feelings through simply imagery and the use of language. The following paper analyzes
these truths. Description and Imagery in Hamlet The reader of this play can see much of what the imagery and the language will convey in the beginning, especially
in Act I Scene II. In this particular scene Hamlet and his new step father come together, and yet clearly do not come together. As one author notes how Claudius
is talking to many other characters and then, finally, "turns to his nephew...Hamlets answers are riddling and evasive: he refuses, as he will later, to speak in a language which
Claudius will be able to comprehend completely. It is another act of insolent resistance" (St Ambrose College). This is a clear use of language for Hamlet is obviously refusing to
use the language that is expected of him in the play, indicating that language plays a very important role. It is alsoa clear example of language conveying a tension
in the play. This is clear when Claudius refers to Hamlet as son and Hamlet, aside, notes, "A little more than kin, and less than kind." Which illustrates a clear
distates for Claudius (Shakespeare I ii). Throughout the play Hamlet changes and, as St Ambrose Colleges author notes, "he is perhaps recognizing
the role which language plays in conscripting us into agreement with the thinking of the powerful" and in so doing Hamlets shifting, in his use of language throughout the play,
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