Why Is Hamlet's Second Soliloquy In Now I Am Alone

Hamlet’s second soliloquy of the play is very interesting because it is full of a raging spirit and the object of Hamlet’s ire is himself. Hamlet’s speech is fueled by his own rage of thinking on the ghost of his father and its missive. It (the speech) is also furthered by his impression of the player who just recently before gave his impassioned speech. Hamlet is livid with himself and it truly shows in his second soliloquy. The beginning phrase of the soliloquy (“Now I am alone”) is rather interesting. It could truly be Shakespeare conveying to his (rather uneducated) audience that the character on the stage is actually, physically alone and no one will hear or see him or it could be something deeper - he is mentally alone, emotionally alone. He is alone because
He has been told to avenge his father, and yet, this man is unable to do so. Hamlet has been unable to devise a plan in which he can trap Claudius and exact the revenge required by the phantom King Hamlet. He, Hamlet, a prince and son to a dead, disgraced father cannot sum up the energy to exact revenge, but a mere common player can stand before a group and blanch, weep, and go hoarse all for the sake of entertainment. Hamlet thinks it “monstrous” that this is so. He goes on to continue that the player would “drown the stage in tears and cleave the general ear with horrid speech” if he knew what Hamlet’s burden. He is thinking that the player was so skilled that he could have the entire kingdom revolting against Claudius in a five-minute speech than Hamlet has done in two acts of a play! Hamlet is upset and angry with himself because this is so. He has let the vile King out of his sight too many times when he could have taken revenge, but he has failed to do so. Hamlet’s soliloquy reflects this anger at failure theme in Act II, Scene