Essay On Hamlet's First Soliloquy

Tragedy of the Soliloquy

William Shakespeare’s Hamlet is a tragedy with universal relations and a timeless nature. It centers around the Prince of Denmark, freshly bitter over the death of his father and the immediate marriage of his mother to his uncle, who, is accused of killing the former king by the ghost of Hamlet’s father. Or so he thinks. In this play, Hamlet has seven soliloquies, which reveal his true nature and the search for himself in that soliloquies are a character's raw emotions and thoughts spoken alone to the audience. Therefore, Hamlet’s character can be described as someone who has an inability to take action, a suicidal tendency, and obedience to his father above all.

The third soliloquy in the tragedy show Hamlet is a man who cannot take action. Proclaiming after watching the actors, “O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!”(Act 2, scene 2, line 42). With their inflection and voice, they can move an entire room of people. Through everything that has happened to him in his past month and now

When Hamlet meets with the ghost that he believes is his father, he is given instruction to, “...leave your mother/ Let heaven deal with her.”(Act 1, scene 4, lines 73-74). However, Hamlet has an urge to take revenge upon both Claudius and Gertrude, for killing his father physically and in dignity, respectively. When confronting her he coaches himself that, “I will speak daggers to her, but use none/ My tongue and soul in this be hypocrites…”(Act 3, scene 2, lines 39-40). Despite fully believing himself that he should do something to his mother, the voice of his father lead his actions. Going back and forth between his wants and his orders Hamlet, “...Would quake to look on. Soft! Now to my mother/ O heart, lose not thy nature…”(Act 3 scene 2, lines 64-65). The Prince is saying his nature is the word of another, giving the audience reason to believe that he doesn’t quite yet know who he himself even