of his father and how this serves to emphasize the scorn that he shows towards his mother. Hamlet communicates that his father was a divine, almost ‘god-like' character, "so excellent a king", who was "so loving to my mother". He also illustrated the contrast between the new king and the old and as such his mother's choice, "Hyperion to a satyr". This example of extreme contrast increases the importance of Hamlet's father and yet also makes a mockery of Claudius' character; one which, to this point, the audience could have seen as strong and domineering.When Hamlet says, "Frailty, thy name is woman", he is personifying frailty as the entire gender. His mother's actions have lead him to believe that all women are capable of acting in this "wicked" way and that all women are weak. Comparing his perfidious mother to his virtuous father Hamlet fells that the people that he could look up to in life have departed and that his entire world has been altered, "It is not nor it cannot come to good". Hamlet know longer looks up to anyone. In a matter of a few months Hamlet, in his mind, went from a life of norm and admiration to a completely different world of cruelty and injustice.Hamlet is also communicated well by the imagery that is used throughout the soliloquy. At the start, Hamlet says that he wants his "too too solid flesh" to ". . . melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew". This goes alongside the later lines, "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world", where the build up of adjectives, one after the other, serves to highlight just how difficult it is for Hamlet to live in the world. It is as if Hamlet cannot deal with or, indeed, stand the physical side of life anymore; he needs to get rid of his body to be able to deal with the inner conflict going on in his head. The poetry of these lines and the image that is expressed serve to reveal not only the tragic nature of his problem, al...
