Diction In Hamlet

“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me.”-William Shakespeare Hamlet is a revengeful tragedy by William Shakespeare written in London, England during the early sixteenth century of the medieval times. William Shakespeare has been known for the beauty of his plays because there is so much connotative meaning into the words that he professes to us within his use of diction. He has been known to write many tragedy plays where most of his protagonists die at the end of his stories. Many tend to be murdered due to the sweet smell of revenge running in many of their veins. One of his most famous tragedy books is Hamlet where the protagonist Hamlet, finds out that his father has just died, and his mother is now in an intimate …show more content…
If Hamlet had been written in slang, it would be undeniably easy for the reader to know exactly what we're Hamlets intention in drafting the revengeful play instead of having to guess at his use of concrete diction and the connotative meanings behind his intriguing language. In Hamlet, Act one scene one we stumble upon Bernardo saying,“And let us once again assail your ears, That are so fortified against our story, What we two nights have been”(Shakespeare3). We see that Shakespeare is talking in verse which consists of typically having a rhyme which makes it hard for readers to understand the situation. On the contrary, if Shakespeare would have written the play in prose in the Italian Era it would have said, “Boss let me tell you about this crazy thing that I’ve wanted to talk to you about.” This would change the audience perspective of how they read and pronounce the words drastically making it evidently easy. This would change the knowledge of readers, and the viewpoint of many Shakespeare's readers is making it a worldwide …show more content…
In Act one Scene two Hamlet says, “O, that this too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew”(Shakespeare15).This made William take us into the deeper thoughts and emotions of the characters by giving us deeper insights of what the characters motives are.This makes the language a bit complicated, which could be avoided if he used simpler ways to show the way the characters shows their deep thoughts and emotions by being direct with the characters.This will end an extreme amount of misunderstanding interpretations mislead by the readers themselves.
William Shakespeare is a well known English poet who has been known to be one of the greatest English writers of all time. The fascinating fact that William Shakespeare could have written Hamlet in the mid-nineteen-twenties during the Italian Mafia time in slang just astonishes me the way a simple little factor like changing the time, place, and language changes the whole atmosphere and the audience's perspective on the play. “We know what we are, but know not what we may be.”-William