Through Language and Soliloquy to See the Contradiction
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ShakespeareЎЇs Hamlet is probably the most famously problematic play ever written and the most famous foreign play for Chinese people. When reading the Hamlet, the emotion keeps changing with the plot goes along. Confused, surprised, admired, finally get confused again. The deeper you think on it, the harder you find it to get to know clearly about.
At the start of act I, as we can conclude from the following details,Ў± it begins with war-preparations, but no war ensues. An invasion impends but never materializesЎ± (words by Cedric Watts), which somehow expressed the contradictions of the play.
At the setting of the act II scene II, the author described the circumstance as Ў°A flourish of trumpetsЎ±; the brain immediately got the image of Ў°trumpets, cannon, drum, and flowers falling on the Queen and KingЎЇs heads. People were laughing happily.Ў± These noise accompanied the festival celebration not only of the marriage of the Claudius and Gertrude but also with the obviously contract of HamletЎЇs apparent reconciliation with the couple.
When Hamlet was talking with the new King and the Queen, ItЎЇs easily to see that Hamlet was astonished when he got back to Denmark, What he received not only his fatherЎЇs bad news, but the marriage.
Ў°Queen Gertrude
Thou knowЎЇst itЎЇs common; all that lives must die.
Passing through nature to eternity.
Hamlet
Ay, madam. It is common.Ў±
When searching for the commonЎЇs meaning, at the past it also presented the meaning of Ў®contemptible, meanЎЇ. Hamlet continued the topic on Ў®death is common for everyoneЎЇ to show his antipathy to the fact.
Hamlet in the formal time was in deep sorrow, getting shocked and having no idea about it. He described the Denmark as Ў°an unweed gardenЎ± to express his deeply desperate. When Hamlet talked to his friend Hotatio, he described the Claudius and GertrudeЎЇs marriage
Ў°Thrift, Thrift, Horatio. The funeral baked meats.
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.Ў±
Through this, we could see how influlently Hamlet used his language. The time between the funeral and the wedding was so short that the feasts could remain to treat the next coming guests to Ў°save the costЎ±. How sarcastic it is! His motherЎЇs husband had been dead for no more than two months, and his mother so soon got married to her husbandЎЇs brother, Hamlet got deeply shocked by this. During the time he didnЎЇt know the truth, his angry was mostly on his motherЎЇs remarriage with his uncle, the new king. From this he got the conclusion, the famous sentence Ў° frailty, thy name is woman.Ў± He still got the invisible pressure on himself from inside; he himself somehow cannot say something publicly.
When Hamlet heard the news about the ghost from his friend Horatio, he kept asking questions in details to make sure whether the ghost was his father.
Ў°then saw you not his face?Ў±, Ў°what, looked he frowningly?Ў±, Ў°pale, or red?Ў±, Ў°his beard was grizzled, no?Ў±
All these questions somehow expressed his characteristic of suspicious. Thanks to this characteristic, it leads to the most interesting features of the play about the experiment in realism.
And when he decided to wait the ghostЎЇs appearance, he said out that
Ў°My fatherЎЇs spirit in arms? All is not well;
I doubt some foul pray. Would the night were come.
Till them, sit still my soul; foul deeds will riseЎЎ±
His melancholy