for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so | paradox, hamlet to rosencrantz |
“Thanks Guildenstern and gentle Rosencrantz” Thanks Rosencrantz and gentle guildenstern | chiasmus, queen gertrude and king claudius to rosenctantz and guildenstern |
As the indifferent children of the earth. | antithesis, rosencrantz to hamlet |
Excellent well. You are a fishmonger. | verbal irony, Hamlet to Polonius |
“A little more than kin, and less than kind” | aside, Hamlet in aside while with Claudius |
“Not so, my lord for I am to much in the son” | pun, Hamlet to Claudius |
“This above all: To thine own self be true” | aphorism, Polonius to Laertes |
“O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew…” | soliloquy, hamlet to himself |
ghost , bad omens | motif |
Hamlet Act 1 and 2 literary device examples
August 15, 2019