Example Of Metonymy In Hamlet

downfall. A metonymy is different being this is a term or phrase literally replacing a word to stand in for the importance of another word or group. This is also used often in Elizabethan Era works and playwrights. “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.” … “We must wait to hear from the crown until we make any further decisions.” We know that one is not asking someone to physically lend him an actual ear, rather he is expressing that he has something to say to the civilization and want everyone to listen. In Hamlet, readers are introduced to him as a lost character who is dealing with the grievance of his father, the betrayal and portrayal of his mother. Shakespeare allows readers through crafty literacy to truly learn about Hamlet’s

Olivier capability to create mise-en-scene which is allowing the actual props and characters to be used within the scene to demonstrate the underlining context of what the director really wants you to see and understand. For example, in Act 1, Scene 5 Hamlet is having a discussion with Horatio and some of the kingsmen, about the information he’s relayed to them about the death of his father and his ghost. When using symbolism viewers see a close-up of all the men laying their hand gently on Hamlet’s sword. This scene suggests a sensual, metaphorical tone that emasculate the other men and viewers see how quickly Hamlet is capable of possessing the mens’ trust. Throughout the scene the men succumb to all Hamlet’s outlandish ideas and statement as if their goal is strictly to please Hamlet by showing their keenness to him and his sword. The sword symbolizes a significant role when compared to Lacan’s Phallus. Jaques Lacan phallus is a psychoanalytic theory that propose the male genital organ challenges the importance of the imaginary privileged interpretation versus the symbolic and the realistic biological purpose the penis