Just like people, the characters in Shakespeare’s Hamlet have very different speech patterns. Hamlets real father, the ghost, and hamlets adoptive father, Claudius, are complete foils of one another. Where the ghost specks directly and makes his point obvious, Claudius hides his messages in long winded sentences that sound pleasant to anyone who doesn’t get the true meaning behind them. Besides creating more depth for his characters, Shakespeare’s decision to give each character there own speech patterns allow any actor who tries to perform the role and easier way of “getting in the mind of the character” because each character is very different from one another. While Hamlet involves many different characters all with different patterns of speech, Hamlets two fathers show the contrast between the different reins in the kingdom, one that had happiness and truth to a dark and kin slaying society that Claudius has created.
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