Shakespeare uses soliloquies like the "to be or not to be" speech to get his audience to start questioning more important things, like whether living is a choice. After getting them to think about these questions, he answers them, usually the opposite of what the audience would think. For example, at the end of the play, he proved that although many believe that life is a choice, this is rarely the case. Shakespeare uses wars of words to give different action in battles where weapons can kill. These battles of words reveal what the characters are really feeling and hint at what will happen later in the play. The final way Shakespeare uses rhetoric in Hamlet is through plays within a play. He uses them to confirm suspicions, but also to prepare the audience for the tragedy that is brewing at the end of the play due to what is discovered during the play within the play. Shakespeare was a very talented writer, capable of giving a lot of meaning to his