Blog Assignment: Page 832 #9

Hamlet's soliloquy, in Act 3, Scene 1, Lines 56-90, starting with "To be, or not to be: that is the question;....." proves to be a climatic moment, and one of Shakespeares and Hamlets most famous scenes, through the use of vivid imagery and diction to bring the whole meaning and emotion of what Hamlet is proclaiming into full perspective for the reader.  Hamlet is questioning his very existence and his incentive to live.  Immediately Hamlet vivid comparisons and diction show the severity to which he has become invested in his revenge.  His diction is able to show us his complete feeling of what he believes has happened to the court.  In the beginning, Hamlets talks about death and smoothly speaks line to line speaking of dreams and escaping and we start to feel death as a very ideal way for Hamlet to escape and a serious possibility in his eyes.  Then he describes  his reality and the treachery that the court has become a part of.  Hamlet begins to use very aggressive words.  This switch in his pattern of speak goes along with the complexity and twisted morals of the court to articulate his true misery and dispare in living.