Hamlet Soliloquy Analysis

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.

What is important to know is that Hamlet and Laertes, throughout the text do not have a friendly relationship and the admiration for Laertes by Hamlet is nothing but an irony and sarcasm. As an audience to the play, one know that Laertes has been brainwashed into believing that Hamlet is his enemy, even when that is not the case at all; the enemy of the Danes throughout the text is the King, Claudius. He is responsible for numerous deaths and agony in the country because he is responsible for killing fathers to Laertes and Hamlet. Despite this, Claudius still manages to create a wall between Hamlet and Laertes, even though the audience expects them to

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

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.

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

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.

1. The quote develops Hamlets character as it further demonstrates his fascination with the physical aspect of death. Hamlet wonders about death many times throughout the play. Famously seen in his "To be or not to be..." soliloquy. It also develops his character as it shows Hamlet slipping further into a real state of madness because he killed a man and seems not to care at all.

One line that especially stood out was when he stated, “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, 
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,”(Shakespeare). He exhibits the metaphor by relating “taking arms against the sea of troubles” to fighting the obstacles in life. Through out the soliloquy Hamlet repeats the word “sleep” and uses it in connotation for the word “death”. Shakespeare associates a temporary suspended consciousness to an everlasting sleep to display Hamlet’s emotions about his death. Hamlet is not scared of his own death and views it as the only exit from his misery. Through this, he made his audience feel a sense of empathy and causes them to reassess their thoughts on the complexities of life. Ethan Hawke emotionally appealed to the targeted audience by displaying the hopelessness of the character Hamlet. As he spoke the words of Hamlet he walked through the aisles very lethargically and observed the variety of films with a vacant look on his face. Through those actions, Hawke projected to the audience Hamlet’s dark state of mind and allowed them to visualize the meaning behind the soliloquy in relation to their own

The "To Be or Not To Be" speech in the play, "Hamlet," portrays Hamlet as a very confused man. He is very unsure of himself and his thoughts often waver between two extremes due to his relatively strange personality. In the monologue, he contemplates whether or not he should continue or end his own life. He also considers seeking revenge for his father’s death. Evidence of his uncertainty and over thinking is not only shown in this speech, but it also can be referenced in other important parts of the play.

When analyzing Shakespeare's Hamlet through the deconstructionist lens various elements of the play come into sharper focus. Hamlet's beliefs about himself and his crisis over indecision are expounded upon by the binary oppositions created in his soliloquies.

The speech is directed at himself through a mirror. This scene, combined with

Consistently, Hamlet reveals his innermost thoughts and devising of plans in order to lead up a decision. Hamlet includes the audience through soliloquies of the intricacy and complexity of each of his

The use of modern devices, the beginning of the speech being a voiceover and the images being shown on the TV screens, add to the soliloquy. For example when he says, “Devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep- / To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,”, Hawke is walking down the aisle towards the TV which is showing scene from an action movie of people dying.

By act three scene one of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Prince Hamlet is in a state of complete emotional upheaval. His father dead, killed by his uncle, Claudius, his mother, Gertrude, then wed to the vary same uncle who now possesses the throne, his father’s ghost haunts him and bids him avenge his death, and the woman he once loved, Ophelia, denies his advances, all of which contribute to Hamlet’s soliloquy and aggression towards Ophelia in the end of the scene. The renown words of “To be or not to be” capture the audience as Hamlet explores mortality, faith, fear, and the purpose of life. For example, Hamlet’s grief at his father’s passing and his ferocity towards his mother’s and his uncle’s betrayal drive him to consider suicide; he contemplates

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