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Compare the two soliloquies of Act 2 scene 2, and act 3 scene 1. What do these speeches reveal about Hamlet's state of mind?
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Compare the two soliloquies of Act 2 scene 2, and act 3 scene 1. What do these speeches reveal about Hamlet's state of mind? In these two substantial speeches, the character of Hamlet Junior is revealed, and portrays a lot about the made-believe character's state of mind. Shakespeare, who has shown Hamlet to be aberrant, in a sense that he makes absurd remarks which no other character seems to understand, but in actual fact has a lot of meaning in them. At the beginning of the first soliloquy, Hamlet's self hatred is exposed and Shakespeare emphasis's his isolation. He starts by saying, " Now I am alone" which is a cleaver use of language by Shakespeare, because it is a sort of pun. One meaning being that he is saying it literally and telling the audience he is talking to them, or he could in fact be referring to his close friends...
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