Hamlet Soliloquy Analysis

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In Hamlet a play composed by William Shakespeare, Shakespeare uses multiple soliloquies throughout his play to delineate the thoughts and feelings of a character (Hamlet) at a key point during a characters climax. Within the second soliloquy in Act two scene two Hamlet seems to question his existence and states himself as “alone” as well as a “peasant slave” which indicates how his intellectual self is grieving towards the death of his father (the king). Hamlet had once seen his father as his hero, his role model and luminary. However, due to his father’s death his mother decided to incestually marry Hamlet’s uncle in which had aflittered him and had made many believe that he was “mad”. In the soliloquy it states “A broken voice, and his whole function suiting” this also indicates how distraught he is towards his father death and the events in which had led after this incident. Hamlet’s staging to this section of the soliloquy would have been him acting and seeming distraught as well as having an appealing facial expression in which would question his madness within him. His posture would be delicate and fragile as if about to break or fall apart. The first section of the soliloquy has Hamlet questioning the player in the play and hims oneself as he sees himself in the position of the player by the way he expresses his feelings and thoughts to the kings death. In this first section there are examples of end rhyme within the stanzas, in lines 541,542 both stanzas end with

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