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Hamlet: Contrast Plays A Major Role
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In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, contrast plays a major role. Characters
have foils, scenes and ideas contrast each other, sometimes within the same
soliloquy. One such contrast occurs in Act Five, Scene One, in the graveyard.
Here, the relatively light mood in the first half is offset by the grav ....
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....flect
Act IV, Scene 3, when Hamlet gives voice to a humorous notion concerning " how
a king may progress through the guts of a beggar " (IV,3,27-28). Hamlet expands
on this idea with his thoughts on how even Alexander the Great or " Imperious
Caesar " may descend to such base uses as stopping a beer barrel, or stopping "
a hole to keep the wind away " (V,1,207)
The entrance of Ophelia's funeral procession marks the beginning of the
second half, which balances the humor of the previous porti.... |
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