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A 4 page paper which analyzes the play structure of Hamlet and the role each characters played in telling the story. No additional sources are used.
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tragedy should consider the plays structure. Shakespeare was not only a master storyteller but was also a literary craftsman who understood that dramatic structure was crucial in telling the
story he wanted to tell. Characters and the vocabulary they used played a significant role in the plays structuring as each one was deftly employed to supply a critical
piece to tragic puzzle. With the exception of the protagonist Hamlet, who provides the storys internal texturing through his soliloquies, what the supporting characters have to say moves the
external action along toward the plays climax and catastrophic conclusion. Hamlet begins with an exposition, which is the introduction of the setting (Denmark), the characters (the family and acquaintances of
Wittenberg University student Prince Hamlet of Denmark), and establishes the plays somber mood. Hamlets eloquence and depressed state is revealed in his first soliloquy, in which he expresses his
intense grief over his fathers murder and vents his rage over the remarriage of his mother, Queen Gertrude, to Claudius, her brother-in-law and Hamlets uncle, a mere two months after
King Hamlets slaying. The main conflict manifests itself in Act I, Scene V, in which Prince Hamlet has a supernatural encounter with what is purported to be the ghost
of his father. It is this ghostly confrontation that also serves as the plays trigger scene or central conflict, the father urging the son to "Revenge his foul and
most unnatural murther [murder]" (I.v.29) as well as his startling revelation that, "The serpent that did sting thy fathers life / Now wears his crown" (I.v.44-45). The ghost speaks
in metaphorical riddles, which enables Hamlet to draw his own conclusions. Hamlet now has a reason to go on living, a target upon which to vent his fury.
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