Analyzation of the Soliloquy:
The purpose of de-familiarization is
to make something familiar, unfamiliar, it makes us see the world in a
splendid or in a new fashion.to create the effect of de-familiarization writer
uses various devices to create this effect. It is also the quality that
literature possesses, by analyzing those devices that are used in poetry or in
any other piece of writing we can find the element of de-familiarization.
In Hamlet writer has used
different metaphors, imageries, and personification to create that effect.
To describe the hardships of life that are known to everyone but the way they are presented in this soliloquy makes this situation unknown and makes the reader to ponder upon that the writer wants to convey to us. By saying ‘to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’ in this metaphor fortune is compared to an army that throws arrows at one, also the metaphor ‘or to take arms against the sea of troubles’, the use of imagery with connotations of war shows Hamlet to see life as a constant battle. The weapons mentioned are long-range suggesting the possibility of being unsuspecting of the attack. The adjective ‘outrageous’ is possibly used to emphasize the connotations of fortune as it can mean the inability to predict, but it also has connotations of being more than is required.
To describe the hardships of life that are known to everyone but the way they are presented in this soliloquy makes this situation unknown and makes the reader to ponder upon that the writer wants to convey to us. By saying ‘to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’ in this metaphor fortune is compared to an army that throws arrows at one, also the metaphor ‘or to take arms against the sea of troubles’, the use of imagery with connotations of war shows Hamlet to see life as a constant battle. The weapons mentioned are long-range suggesting the possibility of being unsuspecting of the attack. The adjective ‘outrageous’ is possibly used to emphasize the connotations of fortune as it can mean the inability to predict, but it also has connotations of being more than is required.
Another device that is used is ‘we’’,
he has used this w word to describe mankind's desires in the heartache of
life.in this soliloquy bases form is used to universalize things in all ages
for example ‘The’. We can also see the metaphor in which he has compared
unknown life to the undiscovered city at the same time calamity metaphor is used in
comparison with life and death as a quietus. This monologue contains the theme
of the human condition of despair and the dangers and fears of what lies after death.
Personification
is also used, it can be seen in the following lines ‘for who would bear the
whips scorn of life’ time is personified so that it is capable of whipping
and scorning. The concept of ‘kamaloka’ is resembling the concept of
Shakespeare in his soliloquy, where he in state of fix, he is stuck in a state
of whether to die or to live, whether to do or not to do, just like the concept
of kamaloka, where a person is suspended somewhere in between heaven and hell.
Hamlet, therefore, feels as though
the odds are weighted against him. This is furthered by the metaphor used of a
‘sea of troubles’ which equates his problem with the vast expanse of the
sea and its power. These images are contrasted with Hamlet’s description of
being ‘shuffled off this mortal coil’ as the verb ‘shuffle’ is usually linked
to embarrassment or awkwardness. This betrays Hamlet’s views that much that we
do is pointless; the heroic deeds we believe to have done are just little
actions. The specific problems Hamlet experiences are hinted at by the
’thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to’. Not only may this mean his mother’s
incestuous marriage with Claudius that upsets Hamlet, but also his dead father
who returns as a spirit telling him to avenge his death which causes much of
Hamlet’s anguish.
This phrase may also mean the actual effects of aging or being wounded. Similarly, Hamlet calls life a ‘’calamity’ and a ‘mortal coil’; coil may mean literal coil which goes back on itself, it may mean confusion which is more probable meaning. Each of these examples demonstrates Hamlet’s view of the world as confusing and against him. The very reasons for this soliloquy show this as Hamlet is trying to reason with his conflicting thought and death.so, we can see how beautifully Shakespeare has described the inner state Hamlet and his confusion, it is creating a de-familiarized effect in a way that these things are very minute to think upon but when a reader goes through these lines, it made him/her stop and ponder upon the idea that a writer wants to convey through his character.
This phrase may also mean the actual effects of aging or being wounded. Similarly, Hamlet calls life a ‘’calamity’ and a ‘mortal coil’; coil may mean literal coil which goes back on itself, it may mean confusion which is more probable meaning. Each of these examples demonstrates Hamlet’s view of the world as confusing and against him. The very reasons for this soliloquy show this as Hamlet is trying to reason with his conflicting thought and death.so, we can see how beautifully Shakespeare has described the inner state Hamlet and his confusion, it is creating a de-familiarized effect in a way that these things are very minute to think upon but when a reader goes through these lines, it made him/her stop and ponder upon the idea that a writer wants to convey through his character.
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