Intro for Hamlet

In Shakespeare's dramatic play Hamlet, Claudius and Hamlet intertwine their ambitions and emotions into the structure of the royal language in which they speak. As the newly, recently crowned King of Denmark, Claudius attempts to develop his image as the new dominant monarch of the kingdom and father of the royal family. He heavily inflates his dominant, superior image through his elongated speeches, which demonstrate that underneath the thick layer of royal, reverential language, the new king is concealing his true ambitions and emotions. On the other hand, the mournful Hamlet reveals a much more complex pattern of speech, in public and in private. When surrounded by other people, his entire speeches consists of little words that hint at his emotions at the moment;yet in soliloquies, his phrases are short with multiple interruptions, often demonstrating his bewildered and contrary thoughts and emotions at the moment. Hence, though Hamlet and Claudius conceal their ambitions and emotions in reverential, complex royal language, Hamlet's short phrases reveal his emotional bursts of bewildering thoughts whereas Claudius' lengthy speeches develop Claudius' facade as a dominant king and father.