Hamlet Soliloquy Analysis

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is laden with tragedy from the start, and this adversity is reflected in the title character. Being informed of his father’s murder and the appalling circumstances surrounding the crime, Hamlet is given the emotionally taxing task of avenging his death. It is clear that having to complete this grim undertaking takes its toll on Hamlet emotionally. Beginning as a seemingly contemplative and sensitive character, we observe Hamlet grow increasingly depressed and deranged as the play wears on. Hamlet is so determined to make his father proud that he allows the job on hand to completely consume him. We realize that Hamlet has a tendency to mull and ponder excessively, which causes the notorious delays of action

Hamlet is a suspenseful play that introduces the topic of tragedy. Throughout the play, Hamlet displays anger, uncertainty, and obsession with death. Although Hamlet is unaware of it, these emotions cause the mishaps that occur throughout the play. These emotions combined with his unawareness are the leading basis for the tragic hero’s flaws. These flaws lead Hamlet not to be a bad man, but a regular form of imperfection that comes along with being human.

Soliloquies are used by writers because they offer the reader or audience the opportunity to know more about the character, his true self and inner thoughts, as well as pieces of information that cannot be revealed through a normal conversation between characters. Shakespeare uses this method with his characters very often to provide a deeper understanding of his characters, and Hamlet speak seven of this, being each one necessary and important for the plot development. Each of this soliloquies gives a deeper understanding of Hamlet’s ideas and feelings, as well as the changes he goes throughout the play.

Hamlet faces challenges throughout the play that try his inner strengths and test his ability to handle the situation. He is torn between wanting to seek justice, and avenge his father’s death. Hamlet is also caught up in an intricate web of lies and deceit, he is considered mad by most characters when in all actuality it is just playing off of the actions of others to benefit himself. He puts on different acts trying to hide the truth, which makes him seem sincerely mad to the people around him. The truth of the matter is that Hamlet can’t decide whether or not his convictions are accurate. This dilemma ultimately leads to not only the deaths of the main characters, but the downfall of the kingdom.

In Shakespeare's Hamlet, Hamlets’ peculiar personna composed of paranoia and manic depression plays a vital part in the outcome of the play by manipulating his actions. Shakespeare depicts Hamlet as a Prince that has been dealt a bad hand in the beginning of the play. This hand is comprised of his father dying and his uncle marrying his mom. These set of events create a domino effect that brings despair, hostility, confusion, and denial. The combination of these emotions arise a sense of paranoia within Hamlet.

In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is torn apart, his feelings are crushed, and he is pressured by many people around him. Many readers wonder why Hamlet act the way he does. Although at times Hamlet’s behavior is abnormal or crazy, Hamlet is just a man trying to deal with a situation that in a million years will never happen, trying to satisfy the ghost of his father, and work the problems around him. Hamlet’s sadness is totally understandable his mother marrying his uncle not to long after his father’s death, his uncle being the king, and being able to see the presence of his dead father. Although Hamlet is seemingly going insane, he is as a matter of a fact a very sane man pretending to be insane in order to take revenge for his father.

Shakespeare develops the theme of action vs. inaction through the display of the conflicting nature of Hamlet’s character, as seen in the act II, scene II soliloquy. Hamlet is an individual that is rash in his thoughts, but hesitant in his actions. As shown in act I, scene II, Hamlet cries about the unfairness of the world after learning of his mother’s remarriage. He states that suicide seems a viable option for his woes when he cries, “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt/Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!” (I.ii.129-30). While he states his longing to end his life, it is merely talk as he never attempts suicide in any way. This quality of Hamlet’s character to speak impetuous thoughts without any action extends throughout the play, including when the actors arrive. When Hamlet thinks about how easily the actors can display their emotions over a fictional account, he belittles himself for not having as sincere a display of emotion over his father’s murder. He comments on the actor’s ability to grow pale, with “tears in his eyes” (II.ii.514) and “a broken voice” (II.ii.515) and how that entire display is fabricated and “…all for nothing” (II.ii.516). Through imagery Hamlet states that if the actor

Hamlet is one of the greatest literary works that has the innate ability to transcend time with the study of the human condition. William Shakespeare investigates themes of revenge, morality, sex, and familial complexities that entangle us all at one point and time. Shakespeare story of Hamlet gives us one of our first tragic heroes in modern literary history. In his quest for revenge for his father’s death we also see the systematic decline and lapses into madness that will lead to Hamlet’s eventual demise. His quest for revenge is one the core themes of Shakespeare’s Hamlet we will examine how this quest leads to his ultimate destiny and failure.

They attempt to suppress Hamlet’s true emotions in order to cover up their pure guilt. All at once, Hamlet is abandoned by his father, his mother, and his uncle and stepfather to cope with his chaotic sentiments of grief, disgust, anger, disappointment, and depression alone. This whirlwind of emotions quickly turns into thoughts of yearning to escape the torture of a life in his circumstances, thinking to himself, “How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on ‘t, ah fie! ’Tis a weeded garden” (1. 2. 137-139). The world that Hamlet lives in is full of nothing but evil and torturous emotions that he does not want to have. The collection of overpowering emotions can become difficult for a person to handle, particularly when coping with little to no support system. Hamlet had suffered death of a role model, only to suffer death again, within himself. Methods of physical self-harm are never mentioned by Hamlet but the thought of dying seems infinitely more pleasurable to him than to continue his life under his new parents. His personal and expressive self-destruction is not caused solely by his twisted familial struggles however, as Hamlet finds himself caught in a storm of emotions brought about by his peers as well.

Hamlet, the title character of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, has long been known to history for his often-perplexing emotions. Dubbed “the melancholy Dane,” he is famously forlorn and malcontent. In two of his notably similar soliloquies, those of Act II Scene 5 Lines 500-60 and Act IV Scene 4 Lines 32-66, he communicates these sentiments in a particular manner—describing how his thoughts and actions relate to those of other characters in the play. In both instances he is highly critical of his own behavior compared to the behavior of others, and he vows to make efforts to overcome what he sees as his own shortcomings. Although they do contain notable differences, Hamlet shows through both expositions that he is self-confident

“To be or not to be”, one of Shakespeare’s most well known lines (3.1.64). In Act 3 of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Hamlet begins a soliloquy with the famous line “To be or not to be.” Throughout this scene, Hamlet contemplates suicide and whether or not life is worth all the suffering. While he initially views sleep as a solution, he realizes that with sleep comes dreams and that those dreams may be good or just as miserable as life. Later, he touches on the fear of the unknown and that the fear of death keeps people from taking their own lives. Following his soliloquy, he encounters Ophelia and she returns gifts to him. Hamlet is furious at his mother and already very depressed, so when Ophelia comes to return gifts Hamlet had given her, he views this is a form of rejection. This rejection compounded with the other issues Hamlet is dealing with, such as his father’s murder and his mother marrying his uncle, intensifies his anger. He in turn tells her “Why woulst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offense at beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven?” (3.1.131-139). He argues that women should all grow up to be nuns and never have children, because children grow up to be corrupt adults. Also, Hamlet expresses his frustration when he mentions “I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another. You jig and amble, and your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I’ll have no more on ‘t. It hath made me mad. I say we will have no more marriage” (3.1. 154-160). He believes women’s beauty is a trick and if they did not marry, there would be less confusion. While he may be mad at Ophelia and blame her for making him believe he may have loved her, he is really more angry at his mother because he does not think she was loyal to King Hamlet. Hamlet’s anger stems from his hatred for his mother’s actions because she so quickly jumped from “loving” her former husband to “loving” Claudius.

Hamlet is the first tragedy in the series of Shakespeare’s immense tragedies, and is one of his most successful, outstanding plays ever known. Hamlet is like a three-dimensional character, a complex being who is very difficult to understand, due to the many conflicts he inevitably encounters. Throughout the play, Hamlet experiences both mental and physical conflict that drives him crazy. Hamlet must determine what separates truth from its apparent representations, therefore must control the illusions from reality in order to deal with the physical aspects of his conflict. After the death of his father and his mother’s remarriage, Hamlet becomes depressed and contemplates on suicide.

The fear of one’s mortality makes one human. Shakespeare's most famous work undoubtedly goes to Hamlet’s “To be or not to be.” The soliloquy is a speech of despair, anger, and suffering. Hamlet deals with profound concepts and philosophical ideas. Questioning the righteousness of life over death, making death desirable and powerful. The speech covers an idea we all refuse to acknowledge, humans bear the burden and labor of life only to avoid the unknown mysteries of death. For such a powerful soliloquy, converting it to films needs a brilliant directing; with outstanding expression, actions, setting, and camerawork. The meaning of the soliloquy has been given numerous interpretation by such directors as Olivier, Dorian, and Branagh. Out

Hamlet is widely regarded as one of William Shakespeare’s most famous and best-written tragedies. Its importance to history, due in part to the fact that the introspection of the main character upon his dilemmas was rarely addressed in other popular plays, is felt to this day. Similar to the likes of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Othello, King Lear, and other Shakespearean tragedies, it has been the subject of much critical analysis and literary review from many approaches. In this essay, the historic, existentialist, traditional revenge tragedy, psychoanalytic, and archetypal approaches will be used to understand the tragedy of Hamlet.

“To be, or not to be, that is the question:” ( Shakespeare 142 Act 3 scene 1 line 63). This line is one of the most famous and recognizable lines from any of Shakespeare’s plays; also, comes from one of Hamlet’s famous soliloquies. Hamlet by William Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest play of all time. This play is very famous for its intricacy and pure genius of the use of the human mind to trick others into pure belief. Likewise, if you were to walk down the street of any major city in the United States and state this exact line most individuals would know exactly what play you are referencing. Hamlet is about a young prince named Hamlet who is forever stuck, emotionally, spiritually and existentially. Prince Hamlet is stuck for many reasons, a few examples are his mother remarried after his father’s passing, married his treacherous uncle Claudius, and Hamlet has to tolerate him for his mother’s sake. Also, Prince Hamlet can’t love his girlfriend Ophelia, for her father will not permit it. Hamlet is suffering from immense depression, although his spirituality will not allow him to end it by self slaughter. After his father, the late King Hamlet passed away his ghost returned and visited prince Hamlet. The King informed Prince Hamlet that he was murdered by Claudius, he was not bitten by a snake. From then on Hamlet embarks on a quest to assassinate his treasonous uncle