Shakespeares Soliloquies - Hamlet’s Soliloquy Essay -- The Tragedy of

junctures Soliloquy The purpose of a soliloquy is to outline the thoughts and feelings of a certain disposition at a point in the play. It reveals the innermost beliefs of the character and offers an unbiased perspective as it is merely the character talking to the audience, albeit not directly, and not to any other characters who may cause the character to withhold their true opinions. Therefore, Hamlets first soliloquy (act 1, scene 2) is essential to the play as it highlights his inner conflict caused by the events of the play. It reveals his true feelings and as such emphasizes the oddment between his public appearance, his attitude towards Claudius in the previous scene is less confrontational than here where he is directly insulted as a satyr, and his feelings at heart himself. In this essay, I will outline how Shakespeare communicates the turmoil of Hamlets psyche. Hamlets despair stems from his mothers marriage to his uncle and it is this that is the driving force be hind what is communicated. His constant repetition of the time in which it took the devil to get married, But two months dead...yet within a month...A little month...Within a month...most wicked speed, suggests his disgust at the situation and that it is not necessarily the character of their incestuous relationship that troubles Hamlet more the short time in which it occurred. In fact, this is especially well communicated to the audience as, throughout the soliloquy, the passage of time that Hamlet describes gets less from two months to Within a month. This has the effect of outlining Hamlets supposed contempt of his mother for only mourning a month whilst also set off that it is the time involved that is vexing him a... ...t only through the diction but also through the imagery, language and underlying messages of the text. It successfully highlights the divisions of character of Hamlet whilst aiding the audience in building a connection with him. Works Cited and Consulted Bok lund, Gunnar. Hamlet. Essays on Shakespeare. Ed. Gerald Chapman. Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 1965. Levin, Harry. General Introduction. The Riverside Shakespeare. Ed. G. Blakemore Evans. Boston Houghton Mifflin Co., 1974. Mack, Maynard. The World of Hamlet. Yale Review. vol. 41 (1952) p. 502-23. Rpt. in Readings on The Tragedies. Ed. Clarice Swisher. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 1996. Shakespeare, William. The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1995. http//www.chemicool.com/Shakespeare/hamlet/full.html No line nos.