2)Sarcasm
In the beginning of the play, Hamlet was very bitter due to the fact that his …show more content…
He wishes that his, “... too too sullied flesh would melt,Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew.” (1.2.131-132) Hamlet wants his body to disintegrate and evaporate into thin air. The loss of his father, his inability to go back to school affected him so much that he would want to follow his father in the afterlife. In his most known soliloquy he says, “ When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?” (3.1.78-79).Before this line, Hamlet was stating all of the hardships that everyone goes through in life. This line sheds a light on an impelling question to the reader saying that, why should we go through all of these hardships if we could just end it easily with a knife?
4) Violence Instead of inflicting himself, Hamlet goes on and brings pain to others. The quote “A villain kills my father, and ,for that, I, his sole son, do this same villain send To heaven.” (3.379-85) Here, Hamlet has decided to slay Claudius who slayed his own brother, Old Hamlet. It is his duty as a son to get revenge on the man that killed his father and the reason for all his heartache.
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