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A 3 page essay that summarizes and analyzes Hamlet’s soliloquy from Act IV, scene iv. No additional sources cited.
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created unstable frame of mind in Hamlet that resembles the insanity that he has previously been feigning. He taunts Claudius in response to his questioning about the location of Polonius
body and Claudius instructs him to leave the country immediately by boarding a ship for England. Hamlet agrees and exits. Scene IV pictures Hamlet, accompanied by Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, as
he comes across a captain of Prince Fortinbras army, which is on its way to fight what will undoubtedly be a bloody battle over an insignificant track of land. Hamlet
then speaks a soliloquy in which he expresses his wonderment at the fact that these soldiers are willing to fight, and probably die, for so little purpose, while he,
although he has considerable purpose, has failed to bring about his revenge on Claudius. This speech has four distinct parts: an introduction; an emphatic statement of his intention; comparison
with Fortinbras and his soldiers; and a conclusion. The "introduction" relates Hamlets initial reaction, which indicates that he interprets the example of Fortinbras and the Norwegian army as castigating him
for his slowness. His thoughts wax philosophical about the nature and human beings are nothing more than animals if they do not make use of their God-given gift of rationality.
He says, "What is a man,/If his chief good and market of this time/Be but to sleep and feed? a beast no more" (IV.IV.33-35). But whether or not it is
"Bestial oblivion" (the mindless of animals) or "some craven scruple" cowardice" that keeps him from action, Hamlet is not sure (IV.iv.40). He is not at all sure why he still
has to say that he will act rather than that he has acted. This observation leads into the second part of the speech, in which Hamlet states his intentions as
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