ing cold and calculating revenge. Such an issue causes Hamlet great internal struggle, as seen in his words. He speaks of "a dam'd defeat" being made.(576). His language is graphic and conveys a violent tone, as in lines 577-580, saying whoever is calling him "villain" is "breaking his pate(head)", plucking off his beard, blowing it to his face, and tweaking him by the nose. He calls himself pigeon-liver'd in lin 583. In the Renaissance, the gentle disposition of the Dove was explained by the argument that it had no gall and thus no capacity to feel resentment or to seek revenge. The liver also was seen as the body's storehouse for courage. Hamlet uses this to describe himself in another negative way. His strong emotions are further developed in his adjectives before the word villain in lines 586-587, such as bloody, bawdy, remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, and kindless. The language implemented in this soliloquy allude to Hamlet's internal conflict about revenge and his father, one of the main conflicts of the play.O, What a rogue and peasant slave am I!(555). Hamlet's second soliloquy proves to be one of the major keys to unlocking the meaning of the entire play. The theme of appearance versus reality is opened, and his harsh language is indicative in many ways to his internal struggle, the essence of Hamlet's true conflict....
