Shakespeare is a master of using poetic lines throughout the book to create various images to express the overall theme of revenge. An example of his use of imagery is near the end of act two. In this quote Prince Hamlet is talking to himself poetically about revenge:
The spirit that I have seen May be the devil: and the devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and …show more content…
According to Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom “Hence Hamlet’s disordered soul symbolizes itself in acts of destruction: he thinks so closely in terms of death that he can perform no life-bringing act. So thoughts of the King’s eternal damnation prevents Hamlet from the life-bringing act of slaying him as he prays.”(p.276) What Harold Bloom is trying to say in my option is that with Hamlet’s soul being so misguided by revenge and everything in his life is making him an unstable person, making him do things that he probably would not do if he had a clear conscience. Bloom’s quote is showing how Hamlet’s soul symbolizes his downfall, failing to enact his revenge that he wants to do so bad but can’t go through with it. In the case of symbolism Shakespeare included a lot of other symbols in it like in this