Compare And Contrast Hamlet's First Soliloquies

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In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare we look at two of his most famous soliloquies. On the one hand, Hamlet 's’ first soliloquy expresses dominated feelings of despair by saying how he had lost everything in his life and doesn 't want to live anymore. On the other hand, Hamlet’s third soliloquy expresses dominated feelings of inferiority. Hamlet is insecure about life or death by telling if he chooses either one of them both will lead to a negative place. These two soliloquies expresses Hamlet’s feelings at the beginning of the play and how it changes as the play goes. In Hamlet’s first soliloquy he expresses how he feels about his Father 's death and his mother remarrying his uncle Claudius. Hamlet describes how his father treated his mother and how she felt about him when he was still alive:

So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr. So loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly.—Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she …show more content…

Hamlet is disgusted and furious by his mother actions by marrying his uncle by saying “By what it fed on, and yet, within a month—Let me not think on ’t. Frailty, thy name is woman!”(1.2.149-150). Hamlet thought that her mother Gertrude married Claudius a little bit too quick so he became suspicious of her. After the King 's’ death, Hamlet saw her mother cry for the King 's death but he thought that those were fake tears from the queen by saying “Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears”(1.2.159). After knowing that Claudius was taking the King 's position and his mother marrying him, Hamlet wanted to commit suicide by saying “His canon’gainst(self-slaughter!) O God,God,”(1.2.136). We can see that Hamlet 's first soliloquy talks about why he doesn 't want to live anymore because of the dramatic events that had happened in his

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