Hamlet's First Soliloquy Essay

Hamlet started off as someone who was sane and the more he pretended to no longer have a balanced state of mind the more he became the way he was acting. Hamlet, a levelheaded well educated man who over thought a lot of things slowly started to act on impulse ultimately ending in his demise. Hamlet’s soliloquies reveals his growth as a character. In Hamlet’s first soliloquy he expresses his disgust with the quickness of his mother’s ability to move on and with life itself. Part of Hamlet’s disdain for life is fueled with the disgust for his mother marrying his Father’s brother, Claudius, after two months. Pestered by the images of Claudius and his mother together in “incestuous sheets”, which he believes she did in order to satisfy
This soliloquy is all his worries and fears surfacing to a boiling point. He wants to kill himself but as said in his first soliloquy he does not want to commit the sin of self slaughter due to God not wishing upon it. In Hamlet’s case his education at Wittenberg surfaces when he not only thinks of what God would think but thinks of “the dread of something after death/ The undiscovered country from whose bourn/ No traveller returns” (II, i, 86-88). This metaphor is an insight into what Hamlet thinks about death, which is that it’s unknown but what he does know is that no one can return. Hamlet believes no one can return from death; the reason Hamlet delays the revenge he has set upon Claudius. Hamlet is not sure if the ghost of his Father is the devil or if it’s really his Father. For this reason Hamlet does not kill Claudius at the moment because he does not want to be thrown into the unknowingness of death. His conscience is the one thing stopping him from ending his life and killing Claudius making a “coward (of us all)” (III, i, 91). Personifying conscience into giving cowardness. Hamlet’s very soul is bombarded with his true conflict, whether or not to kill