Choosing to focus on the end of the page, the choice of words stands out because it displays the amazement that an outsider would have walking into the room where hamlet, Claudius, Laertes, and the queen have all died. “O proud death, what feast is toward in thine eternal evil”(5.2.329-330). Obviously the seen is gruesome; however, proud implies that death can take the life of anyone, it does not segregate whether one is a king or a peasant death will always come. Furthermore, the use of feast shows how truly gruesome it is and how death has taken everyone’s life not just specific people. Later, Horatio explains how it is important to “give orders that these bodies high on a stage be placed to the view”(5.2.342-343). The fact that Horatio wants the bodies to be shown in “view” of the people exemplifies how Horatio wants people to know that even the “high” can still succumb to greed and murder. The most interesting word choice on the page however is when Horatio is summarizing the events in hamlet and says that they are “unnatural” this mimics the word choice that the ghost uses to explain how the queens betrayed Hamlet Sr. but the word unnatural may also reflect on hamlets Oedipus complex and how strange and unnatural Hamlets relationship is with his mother.
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