Hamlet Soliloquy Essay

Throughout the play Hamlet there are soliloquys, these soliloquys enable the audience/reader to be able to know what the characters truly think and how they truly feel. Although many characters have their own soliloquys, Hamlet’s are the most informative and advance the plot the greatest. In Hamlet’s soliloquys we learn of events that speed his revenge, how he feels about his father’s death and his mother’s swift marriage to Hamlet’s uncle Claudius.
Hamlet’s first soliloquy of the play reveals possibly the most about his character in one soliloquy. This soliloquy reveals that Hamlet longs for death by saying “O that this too too solid flesh would melt” (Shakespeare 14) but he cannot kill himself because it is a sin: “His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter.” (Shakespeare 14). Hamlet is considering suicide because he finds life and the world utterly
The captain tells Hamlet that the army is passing through Denmark on its way to fight for a tiny unprofitable part of Poland. Hamlet reflects on the sickness of an apparently healthy society “This is th’impostume of much wealth and peace.” (Shakespeare 110) in which thousands will die in battle over such a “straw” (Shakespeare 110). These thoughts prompt Hamlet’s last soliloquy in which he once again reproaches himself for delaying the revenge of his father’s murder. Hamlet then considers that everything he encounters prompts him to take revenge: “How all occasions do inform against me, And spur my dull revenge.” (Shakespeare 110). He reflects that god has given him human intelligence to use and that capacity for making moral decision making is what separates humans from animals: “Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means To do’t” (Shakespeare 110). The encounter with Fortinbras’ army spurs Hamlet to speed his revenge: “Oh from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth. (Shakespeare