Act II, Scene ii
"Hamlet: In the secret parts of Fortune? Oh, most true. Shes a istrumpet. What news?" "Rosencrantz: None, my lord, but that the world’s grown honest." |
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Personification is used in this play like it is in every other piece of literature; to describe something better or to exaggerate. In the first quote Hamlet is speaking of luck with Rosencrantz as if it were a woman who sleeps around a lot (strumpet), meaning their luck never stays. In the second quote Rosencrantz gives the world the human quality of growing with the character trait of honesty when the world cannot be honest. He is just simply sarcastically saying people are honest when they are not. |
