Hamlet

What metaphors are used in Hamlet by William Shakespeare?

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The most famos metaphor in Hamlet is his "To be or not to be speech" in Act 3 sc 1.

"To die: to sleep; / No more; and by a sleep to say we end / The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks / That flesh is heir to."

Sleep becomes a metaphor for death.