The history of drama goes thousands of years ago with the Greeks. Their display of drama were shown in both The Iliad and The Odyssey. The drama were the scenes of tragedy and death within the stories. Later on, the history of drama turned into the Biblical drama. This occurred in the conflict between Jesus and Judas, and the eventual crucifixion of Christ. After that, there was the history on morality within different plays which were developed into tragedies. Lastly, came the era of plays which were produced in the seventeenth century in England. This era was the William Shakespeare era. Shakespeare has had many plays resulting in tragedies, including Hamlet. His contribution in Hamlet is the direct representation of the conscious thinking …show more content…
He experiences different fates in depression and inspiration throughout his soliloquies within the whole play.
Hamlet says two soliloquies in the play. One in Act one, and the other in act three. The speech in act one happened when Claudius and Gertrude urged Hamlet in open court to cast off the deep melancholy which, they believe has taken possession of his mind as a consequence after his father’s death. Throughout the soliloquy he refers the world to be an ‘unweeded garden’ in which it ranks as poor and gross in abundance. Also in the speech he makes a reference to self-slaughter. He says there is a law against such so it would not occur, causing his depression to grow. In the first two lines of the soliloquy, he wishes his self-might would cease to exist without committing a mortal sin. Later on in the speech, he talks about his mother Gertrude, and his late father along with his uncle Claudius. He does this because first, he is depressed about his father’s death; and two, he is unhappy about the fact his mother will be marrying her dead husband’s brother. Hamlet refers to this marriage in the play as “an incestuous affair”. Lastly, in the act one soliloquy, Hamlet grieves about the passing of his father. He paints a picture of his father as