Hamlet Last Soliloquy Essay

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Hamlet's world is crashing rapidly down over his head as the era of Old King Hamlet comes to an end and the era of Claudius comes into being. The world has not allotted Hamlet a moment to grieve before his mother and the kingdom has moved on without him. His mother has remarried to what he believes is a villain. Without being able to return to Wittenberg, Hamlet no longer has an escape from his problems. The ideals, religious beliefs, and family have betrayed. With his father dead and his mother a villain's whore, he has no one to confide in. Claudius tries to impose fatherly advice upon him, but solutions from the source of the problem do him little good. Denmark has changed drastically in government …show more content…

Speaking metaphorically about his flesh melting, Hamlet wishes that suicide was not a sin. Hamlet has lost what he has to live for. The throne has been snatched from his grasp along with his mother in the same calculated swoop. He speaks metaphorically comparing about the Kingdom of Denmark being the Garden of Eden turn rank and decayed. Old King Hamlet and Claudius are as Hyperion to a satyr.

Hamlet goes on to Question his mother's loyalty to Old King Hamlet because of the short time period between his father's death and her marriage to Claudius. "Frailty, thy name is woman!" Hamlet is losing respect for women and I believe this is a motif that is carried over into his relationship with Ophelia. Claudius pale in comparison to Hamlet's notion of his father. He cannot at this point comprehend his mother's reasoning. He states that even an animal would have mourned longer. His view of their relationship is on the same level a incest. He is disgusted with her. Hamlet is internally conflicted, but chooses now to bite his tongue

I think that if Hamlet would have had more time to adjust, he would not be acting so overdramatically. The soliloquy introduces

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