... he, repelled (a short tale to make), fell into a sadness, then into a fast, thence to a watch, thence to a weakness, thence to lightness, and, by this declension, into the madness wherein now he raves, and all we mourn for."" (91) In dialogue with Hamlet, Polonius observes that Hamlet converses with "a happiness that often madness hits on, which reason could not so prosperously ... have said something in the play so blatantly obvious, and not in a soliloquy, that it should not be questioned. Hamlet indeed declined into madness. Hamlet's act was becoming altogether too real. In his rare m...

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... soliloquy. They are indeed, a device, used more cunningly by those cleverer character's such as Iago. In the very beginning scenes of Act one we see in the dialogue the relationship between Iago and Roderigo. Some of the speeches Iago makes to Roderigo are so foolishly ignored; they might as well be soliloquies. Iago begins with "despise me if I do not- and the whole ... own heartfelt response, but simply perhaps what Iago wishes him to say. Instantly we see the strength in the character of Iago, in complete juxtaposition with the weakness of Roderigo, who mirrors the stupidity of Sir A...

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