Throughout Shakespeare’s tragic story of Hamlet the manner in which Hamlet speaks allows a glimpse of his conniving personality. His soliloquies are no different in showing his scholastic qualities. These characteristics are present in many of Hamlet’s sentences and actions. The method he uses to verify the Ghosts story and to find blame in the king is well thought out and pre-planned. In Act IV, Scene IV, Hamlet emotions are well conveyed by …showed first 75 words of 843 total…

…showed last 75 words of 843 total…in Act IV, Scene IV, his syntax consists of long, well thought out, and emotional sentences. The scholastic diction that appears consistently throughout his contemplation brings into view his emotions through emphasized words and sensory appeal to show images. Though his entire soliloquy makes up thirty-four lines it consists of only eight sentences that eventually lead Hamlet to the decision that “from this time forth my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!” (Lines 67-68)