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An exploration of the ways in whichShakespeare presents Hamlet’s changing thoughts and feelings in the playthrough soliloquies.
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An exploration of the ways in which Shakespeare presents Hamlet's changing thoughts and feelings in the play through soliloquies. Shakespeare presents Hamlet in the first Act as distraught and angry in a state of utter depression caused by his father's death and as we learn during the first soliloquy, by his mother's 'frailty' in remarrying so soon after the King's death. Shakespeare reveals Hamlet's torment and the origins and causes of a lot of his feelings that contribute to his behaviour throughout the play, in the first of Hamlet's soliloquies in Act One, Scene Two. It is in this soliloquy that we learn of the hatred Hamlet feels for his mothers 'incestuous' marriage to his uncle Claudius, and ultimately the hatred he feels for himself. Not only do the soliloquies used by Shakespeare present Hamlet's inner thoughts to the audience, they also reveal a lot about his inner feelings towards events...
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