Analysis Of Hamlet's Third Soliloquy

In Hamlet’s soliloquy in act IV scene iv, he brings up the question of “what is a man?” Hamlet does this while looking upon the over powering army that is lead by Fortinbras. His army was passing through Denmark to fight over an insignificant piece of land in Poland. Hamlet then thinks about his lack of action with his mission to kill Claudius. While he is seeing this massive army marching, going to war over something so insignificant he realizes that he must try to make his “thoughts bloody” (4.4.64). In this soliloquy, we learn that through Hamlet’s inaction he sees himself no better than a beastly animal where he should see himself as a man that takes action into his own hands which, makes him as the same level as the gods.

Have you ever wondered why Shakespeare uses so many descriptive words that could really be said in one? Or why some characters speak in rhyme and sometimes not? Shakespeare writes in this way to show how the characters feel through the rhythmic and descriptive words that they use. How the characters speak also shows how sincere and loving they are. Shakespeare had a way of writing that informed us about the characters and what we needed to know about them and also makes it interesting to read.

For example, a minor part of his character is his level of education. Earlier in the play, the other characters talk about how Hamlet when to school in England, and while he is on his own his education is shown with the figurative language he uses. He uses similes like in line 149 where he compares his mother to Niobe, metaphors and analogies in lines 140, “Hyperion to a satyr,” and 153, “than I to Hercules.” Hamlet is a prince, so the audience should already infer that Hamlet is more educated than most, but the passage here confirms that Hamlet is well read enough to accurately use these allusions to mythology. By having Hamlet use this language and those figures, Shakespeare illustrates Hamlet’s level of education to the audience, but the language conveys more about Hamlet than his

I Hamlet's second soliloquy, we face a determined Hamlet who is craving revenge for his father. “Ay, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat/ In this distracted globe. Remember thee!” Hamlet feels sorry for his father who was unable to repent of his sins and is therefore condemned to a time in purgatory. He promises his father that in spite of his mental state (he is distracted, confused and shocked) he will avenge his death. He holds him in the highest regards because he sees his father as a role model. “Yea, from the table of my memory/ I’ll wipe away all trivial fond records,”. He’ll erase all prior Knowledge and experience and leave only his father’s “commandment”. He will engrave it in the front of his mind to show his

By so doing it was believed that the sins of the dead person would be

Hamlet is dissatisfied with his inability to kill Claudius, thus allowing him time to rewrite his wrongs. Unable to muster up the courage to carry out his envisions of murdering Claudius, Hamlet calls himself “a dull and muddy-mettled rascal” (2.2.526) that is “unpregnant of [his] cause”. (2.2.527) In both the soliloquies Hamlet stands around dreaming of completing the act, but pushes aside his outraged feelings toward Claudius. Hamlet is mad at himself as he pretends he is unaware of the treason. The soliloquy “what is a man” starts out with “how all occasions do inform against me, and spur my dull revenge!” (4.4.31-32) By “spur my dull revenge” Hamlet is stalling and much like a dull revenge a dull knife would do little to help achieve a stout revenge. This soliloquy also ties in with the

Hamlet, one of Shakespeare’s tragic plays, portrays the story of a young man’s quest to avenge his murdered father and his quest to find his true identity. In his soliloquies, Prince Hamlet reveals to the readers his personal perceptions of the events that take place in his homeland, Denmark, and of which are either indirectly or directly tied to his father’s murder. Many critics and scholars agree that while Hamlet’s soliloquies reveal the search of his identity and true character, his soliloquies universally illustrate man’s search for his true identity.

Topic: ANALYSIS OF HOW HAMLET ACT III SOLILOQUY TIES ACT I AND II SOLILOQUIES TOGETHER

Hamlet’s first soliloquy comes in act one scene two, as Hamlet reflects on the current state of events. The chief focus of this soliloquy is essentially the rottenness of the king, queen and the world in general. In this passage the reader is introduced to Hamlet pseudo-obsession with death and suicide, which later will become a chief point of indecision. In this particular speech, however, Hamlet is fairly confident. He wishes that his “too too sullied flesh would melt”

In act III scene I Shakespeare’s exemplifies the stimulation of emotions and feelings through Hamlet’s words. The speech or soliloquy Hamlet gives in this scene is very much philosophical in a sense while maintaining an emotional side of the speech. Hamlet contemplates on suicide; it’s the thought that Hamlet gets that creates a sense of emotion in philosophy. The soliloquy that Hamlet states goes into the depth of philosophy “to be or not to be” (3.1, 57), these thoughts of Hamlet give a feeling of catharsis which few people know about. Whatever Hamlet contemplates is somehow subconsciously linked to each and every person, but people do not contemplate on it too much because of fear. The extent to which there is a sense of emotional appeal is quite effective and in depth to a person’s thoughts.

In William Shakespeare’s, Hamlet, the author writes about the Prince who seemingly goes crazy and kills many people that were once close to him after his uncle kills his father only to marry his mother. Shakespeare tends to have his characters talk through soliloquies in his plays to provide specific details about what that character is feeling. Shakespeare is known for his depressingly gruesome writings and Hamlet is definitely in that category. In Hamlet, Prince Hamlet has seven soliloquies to continue the plot and reveal Hamlet’s emotions along with creating a proper feeling for the play. In Hamlet’s soliloquies, he reveals that he is virtuous, yet indecisive, he thinks about

In Act III, scene I of Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, the thematic imagery, along with the symbolic use of syntax and diction that Shakespeare uses helps convey Hamlet’s state of mind as troubled and as having a painful view to life which, overall, is subtly expressed with weakness as he talked about death.

Coming immediately after the meeting with the Ghost of Hamlet’s father, Shakespeare uses his second soliloquy to present Hamlet’s initial responses to his new role of revenger. Shakespeare is not hesitant in foreboding the religious and metaphysical implications of this role, something widely explored in Elizabethan revenge tragedy, doing so in the first lines as Hamlet makes an invocation to ‘all you host of heaven’ and ‘earth’. Hamlet is shown to impulsively rationalize the ethical issues behind his task as he views it as a divine ordinance of justice, his fatalistic view reiterated at the end of scene 5 with the rhyming couplet ‘O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right’. These ideas are

Shakespeare uses blank verse throughout his entire play writing time. Blank verse is a form of poetry in which lines have ten syllables, have five stresses, and no rhyme scheme. ?The plays were mostly written in blank-that is, unrhymed-verse (except for rhymed couplets, often used to close our scenes or sequences)? (?So Near and Yet So Far?). The rhythm he used is iambic pentameter which is meter a type of pattern found in poetry. Iambic pentameter is an unstressed sound followed by a stressed syllable. ?Blank verse was a common dramatic vehicle at the time and for centuries later? it is still used it today(?So Near and Yet So Far?). Shakespeare also introduced a new type of blank verse. Shakespeare often wrote his sonnets in this same manner. One may find a rhyming couplet, but he mainly uses iambic pentameter in every line of his poetry as well as his drama.

By Hamlet’s third soliloquy he still has not taken action to avenge his father’s death and hates everyone around him, including himself. He begins his soliloquy with the famous line “To be, or not to be?” With this line Hamlet is asking whether is it better to be alive or to be dead. In this soliloquy Hamlet contemplates suicide and discusses the trials of life. He wishes not to have to deal with the hardships of life, but realizes that he is not brave enough to take his own life. Not only is he, like most humans, afraid of the unknown, but he is also afraid of committing a sin and damning his soul. At the end of his third soliloquy Hamlet has yet to do as his father’s ghost told him and Hamlet is still angry with himself for being such a coward.