Hamlet takes us on his own journey to discover his feelings and thoughts about himself.

He lets us see the quarrel in his mind, which is discussing why he hasn't taken revenge

yet. Hamlet is disappointed with himself for not taking action against the person that

murdered his father, Claudius. This soliloquy from Hamlet shows the diction, imagery,

and syntax that Shakespeare uses to express Hamlet's conflicting feelings, thoughts, and

In many parts of Hamlet's soliloquy Shakespeare uses diction or word choice to convey

his feelings and thoughts regarding his actions. In the first couple of lines Shakespeare

discusses Hamlet's "dull revenge". These two words "dull" and "revenge" are contrasts

to each other. The word "revenge" describes strong, powerful and intense feelings while

the word "dull" describes weak and boring feelings. The contradiction of words is used to

describe what Hamlet thinks about his own vengeance of his father's death with

Claudius. He feels that he hasn't given his best effort to revenge his uncle and therefore

calls his revenge "dull" which is a powerful way to descri

see Hamlet's response to the question and if he feels that he is a man or not. Hamlet

take some action. Because of the unique sentence structure Hamlet is able to express

reader also stop and think to themselves about the answer to that question. It allows us to

desire to revenge his father's death. The next two places where we see examples of

dreadful place you go when you die. But Shakespeare is using the word "bed" in another

Hamlet's vicious attitude about his vengeance that he is yet to take. All these uses of

having a killed father and a stained mother excite or stimulate his reason and his blood.

Another place where the power of diction is shown is when Hamlet is talking about the

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