Hamlet’s seventh and final soliloquy represents the watershed in the play whereby our protagonist finally manages to shake off his lassitude and embark upon a course of direct physical action representing the culmination of a somewhat protracted period of solemn contemplation and internal intellectual discourse. It is crucial to our understanding of his character development. By the end of the soliloquy Hamlet brings an end to his earnest contemplation on the immoral act of revenge and finally accepts it as his duty. The concluding two lines of the text bear testament to this hardening of Hamlet’s resolve “Oh from this time forth, / My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth” (4.4 66-67). The soliloquy signifies the zenith in Hamlet’s struggle