Hamlet's Silver Platter Rhetorical Analysis

Hamlet’s Silver Platter Shakespeare redeemed his well-known reputation by his iconic writing. He incorporated loads of imagery, character traits and literary devices that construct his amazing pieces. Hamlet, being one of his most famous playwrights besides the glamorous Romeo and Juliet, serves sarcasm and insanity right to the audience on a silver platter. The man himself, Hamlet, faces more conflict with his inner self than any other person in the novel. Shakespeare’s use of insanity and sarcasm highlights the plays humor and inner emotions leaving the reader with the ability to relate. Hamlets emotions, especially those vividly shown in Act II, are similar to those of a teenager girl crazy in love. The thought of Ophelia, Hamlets “star-crossed” lover, has him going completely insane. As Hamlet is left to his lonesome at the end of Act II, he screams of himself, “What’s Hecuba to him or he to Hecuba that he should weep for her? What would he do had he the motive and the cue for passion that I have? “(2.2. 131). His anger filled rant is filled with rhetorical questions claiming he would do anything for his beloved Ophelia. He adds, if another guy was in his situation “he would drown the stage with tears and… make mad the guilty… and amaze indeed the very faculties of eyes and ears” ( 2.2.131). Hamlet’s mental stage at this point in the novel has completely deteriorated as he goes mad balancing his obsession for Ophelia and raging
Insanity and sarcasm are intertwined wisely in Hamlet to really capture and allow for inner emotions and connections to be made by the audience. As the reader gets more the depth it is nearly impossible not to feel sympathy for Hamlets broken heart and Ophelia’s naive mind. An emotional roller coaster is a place Hamlet has found himself on and he has not reached his