Use of Language

Nicole Montoya
Period 3
November 8, 2011

Hamlet use of language differentiates himself from many epic heroes in the sense that the reader can see exactly what Hamlet is thinking and feeling during every situation. Opposed to many epic heroes, where the author never reveals how the hero is feeling during situations. Also, the tone for Hamlet is confused and melancholy, while many epic poems are always adventurous and enthusiastic.
This difference is shown greatly in the "To be or not to be" soliloquy. While Hamlet is speaking to himself, the reader can really see how Hamlet is feeling and reacting to the idea of killing his uncle and avenging his father. "That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time," Hamlet is expressing to himself, how people live life rather knowing what's ahead, then killing themselves and not knowing the life after death. Greatly different from the epic heroes, because they not once consider if what they are doing is right or if there is a different way out. They just do what is right for the good of the whole, even if they die in the process.
Not only is the writing different, but also the way the author portrays how the character is feeling. Even though put into the same situations on whether to kill or not, Hamlet and the epic heroes go by it differently. In the text, Hamlet really shows how much he is fighting with himself, whether or not to kill. "by a sleep to say we end, The heartache" Or to just kill himself in order not to hurt anybody. Contrasting to the epic heroes, where they don’t really fight within themselves. They just fight whatever is in front of them.
Though both are great books and people, they express themselves in very different ways. Hamlet in a more artistic and emotional sense, and epic heroes, in a manly and straight forward way.