Talk:Hamlet's Aside

Eeew! Sorry but the strength of Shakespear is his use of language and effective use of Romance. Shakespear is a poet foremeost and a playwright. It cannot be tampered with as if it was prose.

I'm not one of those people who think that Shakespear is unimprovable, but as I've read another fellow say:

"When Macbeth is alone, he says:

"What hands are here? Ha! they pluck out mine eyes. Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No: this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red." [2:2 L62-66].

The literary effect, in the midst of the superb visualisation of the reification of guilt, is in the shocking transition from the polysyllabic Latinate "multitudinous" and "incarnadine" to the blunt Saxon "making the green one red."

Contrast knob turned high, in the hands of a Master.

Again, that's the power of English. In chaos, to be drawn into attractors, to cross sharp boundaries unexpectedly."

Inkstersco 12:23, 16 February 2006 (UTC)