Tuesday, March 22, 2011

What poetic/literary/stylistic devices are evident in in Hamlet's soliloquy in act 4, scene 4 of Hamlet?

begins thewith an exclamation, immediately
followed by a . Thebuilds further in the
long sentence that begins:


Now, whether it
be
Bestial oblivion,
or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on the

event€¦

to the insistent polysyndeton at the end,
which
increases the force of s self-reproach by emphasizing the factors that
favor revenge:


Sith I have cause and
will and strength and means
To
do't.


The tone of thethat follows (gross as earth) only
increases the
sense of Hamlets self-disgust which is evident throughout the passage. The

contrasts in language between his descriptions of("a delicate and tender prince")
and
the troops he leads ("this army of such mass and charge") along with
the
overblown("death and danger dare") and final bathos ("Even for
an
egg-shell") may ridicule the Norwegian, but their primary effect is to
deprecate Hamlet,
since he has failed to do as well as Fortinbras in
revenging...



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