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Shakespeare's Use Of Words In Hamlet

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The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare has given light to words. Certain words will draw the watcher and reader in. The placement of a word relates back to how the word works in the favor of the play. William Shakespeare also used the words in away that they could have a different meaning. The word that seems to have a large part to do with the play is the word death. Shakespeare uses death to describe Hamlet’s father. But also when one of the characters talks about Julius Caesar and how the dead was acting that day. Horatio said this “the graves stood tenantless and the sheeted dead/did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets” (I.1. 115-116) in relation to Julius Caesar's death. Death means the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end
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