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In eight pages this paper examines how the soliloquies Hamlet delivers in William Shakespeare’s tragedy reveal his descent into madness and also considers how the play would have been altered had they been cut. There are no additional sources listed in the bibliography.
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8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TG15_TGhamsolilo.rtf
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- a young Danish prince with serious emotional problems - and all of the action centers on him and modulates as his mental state deteriorates. Shakespeare used the literary
device of soliloquy to express Hamlets growing inner turmoil effectively. His seven soliloquies comprise nearly 20 percent of the 4,000-line play, and reflect Hamlets many complexities. They reveal
him to be extremely intelligent, philosophical, vengeful against his mother Queen Gertrude and uncle turned stepfather Claudius (now King of Denmark), cunning, and increasingly unstable. In his first soliloquy, Hamlet
bemoans the murder of his father and the sense of betrayal he and his father feel over Gertrudes affair with her brother-in-law. Frequent references to the natural world illustrate
how Hamlets natural order has been thrust into chaos by his fathers murder and his mothers remarriage in rapid succession: "O that this too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw,
and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fixd / His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! / How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable /
Seem to me all the uses of this world! / Fie ont! ah, fie! Tis an unweeded garden / That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature /
Possess it merely. That it should come to this! / But two months dead! Nay, not so much, not two. / So excellent a king, that was to this /
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother / That he might not beteem the winds of heaven / Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth / Must
I remember? Why, she would hang on him / As if increase of appetite had grown / By what it fed on, and yet within a month-- / Let me
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