Hamlet
In Shakespearean literature, soliloquies are important dramatic devices. They allow the reader to understand a character better as a play unfolds. In Hamlet, the soliloquies performed by the title character help reveal his innermost thoughts and feelings aloud. Hamlet's soliloquies are the keys to his internal struggles, which are hidden under a mask. From Hamlet's soliloquies in Act I, II, III, and IV, one learns of his feelings towards the new marriage between his mother and his uncle, his indecisiveness towards the revenge for his father's death, and his overwhelming feelings of depression and thoughts of suicide. The soliloquies performed by Hamlet helped revealed this. It is obvious to the reader that Hamlet is angry at his mother and more so that she only grieved for one month. Hamlet feels that his mother impulsively marries Claudius. He compares his mother to Niobe, the daughter of Tantalus who turned to stone while mourning over the loss of her children, and cried continuously. Hamlet says, finally, that even a beast would have mourned longer, showing that he truly feels that her grievance was too short. This soliloquy reveals to the reader, Hamlet's feelings about the marriage since he still has great love for her.
During Hamlet's soliloquy in Act IV, Hamlet hears of the actions of Fortinbras. When honor’s at the stake. How stand I then, That have a father killed, a mother stained, Excitements of my reason and my blood, And let all sleep, while to my shame I see The immanent death of twenty thousand men That for a fantasy and trick of fame Go to their graves like beds, fight for a plot Whereon the numbers cannot try the cause, Which is not tomb enough and continent To hide the slain? O, from this time forth my thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth! (IV.iv.57-67) Hamlet wonders if it is better to respond passively to the trials and tribulations of life, or to confront them, or to give up and commit suicide. After Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" speech, he finds reason not to commit suicide. This internal struggle is fear. But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country whose bourn no traveler returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? (III.i.79-83) From lines 73 to 78, Hamlet is prepared to kill Claudius, yet he ponders his future actions, and decides to postpone his revenge. He does so due to the fact that by killing him while he is praying, Claudius will in turn go to heaven. This is not what Hamlet wants, nor what anyone would want. From lines 89 to 95, Hamlet decides he will enact his revenge during the time in which Claudius engages himself in a sinful act, from which has no chance for salvation, whereby he will go to hell upon death.
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