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Katy Cheevers How do Hamlet's soliloquies help us to understand the processes of his mind? The term soliloquy is a literary or dramatic form of discourse, within which a character talks to himself and reveals his inner thoughts without addressing a listener. Hamlet uses soliloquies to express his feelings towards his dead father and self loathing to the reader of the play but to none of the characters within it. Hamlet has a complex character and it is important for the audience to be able to understand Hamlet's feelings on the themes of the play without him having to explain them to another character. Hamlets three soliloquies are guide of how he is feeling at different points of the play. In the first line of Hamlet's first soliloquy he uses the term 'sullied flesh' referring to himself, describing him to have impure flesh in a physical sense because he is made...

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