... His "representation" of himself as mentally unstable is an attempt to accomplish his goal avenging his father's death while revealing the truth. Hamlet ends his soliloquy with, "Thus conscience makes cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale ... not permit him to commit premeditated murder. This reasoning is a correlation to his "to be or not to be" soliloquy. In the famous soliloquy, Hamlet explains that one's conscience can make a coward of anyone, given the chance. If one thinks too much about a harmful situation, their conscience will ......

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... humor, for they are aware of Hamlet's scheme. This scene also shows, again, the attitudes the characters have toward Hamlet. Perhaps the most effective proof of Hamlet's sanity lies in his soliloquies. The first soliloquy, Act 1. Scene 5, occurs directly after Hamlet's conversation with his father's ghost. The tone of this soliloquy is not that ... whether it is nobler to fight or suffer, if to die is to sleep and to dream. It is strange that in this scene, Hamlet switches immediately from deep pondering to his feigned persona precisely when Ophelia enters. The phrase,Soft you now. .? i...

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... be false to any man. Farewell; my blessing season this in thee!" (Act 1, Scene 3 lines 77 - 81) Climaxing his rather long speech, this change of tone can only be taken ironically. As Polonius gives his son Laertes his blessing to go away, he sends Reynaldo, a spy to follow him and keep an eye on ... words of him. In reality he cares little for the old king, he speaks kindly only to give the appearance of loving brother. "Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death, The memory be green, and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief, and our whole kingdom To be contracted ... he i...

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... office, and the spurns That patient merit of th"unworthy takes When he himself make his quietus make With a bare bodkin?" (3,1,70-77) During Hamlet's soliloquy he continually refers to himself in terms of all humanities fears and injustices. We see his mood as being one that is logical and almost ... and resigned. The fact of his insufficiency is accepted and reasons are advanced that explain such short comings as general in human life." (Boklund 128). Hamlet then wonders why the majority of people do not decide to kill themselves. Though he compares death to sleep, a sort of peaceful a...

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