Name: Falak Noreen

Reg no: BSELC 70043821

Submitted to: Hafsa Karamat

Subject: Stylistics

Topic Name: do analysis of Drama or play of any of your

choice “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare

Hamlet (William Shakespeare)

Elements of Drama

Theme:

Theme is an overarching thought, logic, and conviction utilized within the scholarly works by

an essayist to appear these concepts straightforwardly or in a roundabout way.

Hamlet Example: In Hamlet, sometimes, becoming too dependent on your thirst for revenge

and honor can lead to your own demise.

Setting:

Elsinore, Denmark: in and around the royal palace. The story of Hamlet is set in the late

middle ages (14th and 15th centuries or 1300 to 1499) in and around (mostly) the royal palace in

Elsinore, a city in Denmark.

Mood:

The whole play appears distinctive dispositions concurring to the circumstance. When the

play opens, the watchers and readers experience appalling and frightful within the foggy climate

of Elsinore. As the play advances, the frightfulness and dread include the full environment until

the players arrive and bring a few air of excitement. A development of pressure and struggle

comes to its point when the undertaker gives comedian alleviation. In any case, the light climate

is short-lived as the occasions turn bleak, expanding more pressure taken after by duel.

Irony:
 The King mourns the death of the late king. However, this is ironic since he killed. It is also

ironic that play is being stated to entertain Hamlet, while Hamlet is using it to know Claudius’s

crime.

Verbal Irony:

Not so, my lord. I am too much i ’the sun

Dramatic Irony:

Dramatic irony happens at a few places within the play. For illustration, when Claudius is

appeared supplicating, he is really not feeling too bad for killing his brother. This can be a

sensational incongruity that in spite of the fact that he is confession doesn’t appear any blame or

regret.

Situational Irony:

Situational irony in that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern try to meet Hamlet to tell him that they

have come to meet him to know what he is mad but his replies are very ironic.

Characters:

Hamlet: Hamlet is the protagonist of the play. He is also remembered as a tragic hero.

Claudius: Claudius is the main antagonist of Hamlet. as he weaves a arrange to murder the

hero, Villa, who is the agent of great, as compared to Claudius, the agent of fiendish within the

play.
 Genre:

Shakespearean tragedy

Style:

The play is written in mostly blank verse. Hence, Hamlet’s style shows the excellence of

taking the argument to the pinnacles. Shakespeare brings the argument back to demonstrate the

use of climax and anticlimax at the same time. Hamlet is a mixture of comic as well as tragic

phrases.

Dialogues:

“This above all: to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

Soliloquy:

The play shows some memorable soliloquies. For example

O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I

Aside:

Aside is a short comment or speech that a character delivers directly to the audience, or to

him, whiles other actors on the stage appearing not to hear? Only the audience knows that the

character has said something to them.

Hamlet makes an aside by saying:

Symbolism:

“Tis an unwedded garden that grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature possess it

merely. That it should come to this” (Act 1, Scene 2, Line 135-137)

Plot:

Exposition

The play Hamlet begins with two officers and a friend of Hamlet named Bernardo, Marcellus

and Horatio guarding the palace. As they converse, a ghost who appears to look like Old King

Hamlet emerges wearing armor. The three of them attempt to talk to The Ghost but to no avail.

The Ghost eventually departs but returns again later, leaving Horatio trembling and pale,

questioning the identity of the apparition. Assuming that it was Old King Hamlet, the trio tells

Hamlet what happened the next day.

Rising Action

Once Hamlet finds out that Claudius killed his father, his main focus and priority becomes to

find a way to kill his uncle with the most ease. In the end, Hamlet final plan involves him acting

insane around his family and some friends. Doing so, he becomes less susceptible and less of a

threat when Hamlet decides to murder Claudius, thus giving him an advantage.

Climax

Hamlet already knows that Claudius and Gertrude are watching him so he becomes very

suspicious when he enters his mother's bedroom. As the two converse, Hamlet knows someone
else is in the room with them and is sure the King is spying on them behing the curtains.

Enraged, Hamlet draws out his sword and stabs through the curtains without knowing that it was

Polonius hiding behind it. Hamlet proceeds to moving the arras, finding Polonius's body on the

floor and arguing a bit more with his mother. Bidding Polonius farewell, Hamlet drags the corpse

out of his mother's bedroom.

Falling Action

After Hamlet kills Polonius, the King decides to send Hamlet to England so he can be

executed. When Hamlet finds out why he was being sent to England, he decides to go back to

Denmark. On his way back to the palace, Hamlet sees two gravediggers working without

knowing that they were digging Ophelia's grave. Eventually, he catches on to who has died and

argues with Laertes in her grave. Gertrude and Claudius tell Hamlet that he is mad, thus leading

Hamlet to storm off.

Resolution

Whilst Hamlet has a plan to kill his uncle, Claudius also devices a plan of his own to murder

Hamlet. Assuming his scheme goes well; Laertes will challenge Hamlet to a duel but will fight

him with an actual sword that is poisoned. If all else fails, Claudius will have also poisoned

Hamlet's drink. During the actual duel, Queen Gertrude takes a drink from Hamlet's cup and is

poisoned. Moments later, Laertes strikes Hamlet with the contaminated sword but not hard

enough to kill him in the moment. Angered, Hamlet also hits Laertes with the sword once he

finds out that it had been poisoned. After the mess of the duel, the Queen dies and King Claudius

admits to poisoning the drink. Laertes falls on the ground consecutively, asking for forgiveness

and revealing the King's plan only to die shortly after. Hamlet gives in and impales the King with
the sword. Hamlet becomes the next to die and tells Horatio to stay alive so he can tell people

what happened. Fortinbras marches in only to find everyone dead and crowns himself as the ruler

of Denmark.

Imagery:

Imagery means to use visually descriptive statements. For example,

O Hamlet, what a falling-off was there.

That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain.

At least I am sure it may be so in Denmark.

Empathy:

Empathy for the Character Hamlet in Hamlet by William Shakespeare I believe deep down

everyone has felt like they themselves where Hamlet. They can empathize with some of the

emotions Hamlet was feeling, the grief and the sorrow, the abandonment and resentment. ... The

one thing that changed Hamlet then happened.

Popular Music in Hamlet

Song: “Things Heard But Not Seen”

Lighting of the scene

Color

Sound

Angle: Candles on the stage

Night ambient

Wind through leaves

Strong wind

References:

Shakespeare, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. New Folgers’s Ed. New

York: Washington Square Press/Pocket Books, 1992.

https://www.williamshakespeare.net/hamlet.jsp