Comparing Hamlet Third Soliloquy To Zefirelli's

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Hamlet’s third soliloquy has been famed for the line “To be or not to be,” however the reenactments done by Mel Gibson and directed by Zefirelli has shown to be better performed than that of Kenneth Branagh directed by Branagh in the terms of voice and cinematography but it began to lack in the use of location and lighting. Voices are differentiated in many ways, whether it may be intonation, pitch, volume, etc., each different combination represents an emotion different from another. In Hamlet’s soliloquy, it shows different thoughts with different emotions, however, only Gibson’s version was able to reenact the different emotions presented in voices. With voices changing between sorrow, calm and anger it has emphasized the emotions corresponding

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