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Show how Hamlet's changing state of mind is made clear through Shakespeare's dramatic use of soliloquy. How far do the soliloquies help us to empathise with Hamlet's dilemmas?
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Show how Hamlet's changing state of mind is made clear through Shakespeare's dramatic use of soliloquy. How far do the soliloquies help us to empathise with Hamlet's dilemmas? To the reader, the play of Hamlet is somewhat like a roller-coaster ride taking us up and down with Hamlet's emotions and before we have chance to see whether we've just looped the loop Hamlet's emotion will have changed from one of a depressing nature to one of a sheer desperation to avenge his father's death or he will seemingly have beaten us to the loopy loop the loop of insanity. On such a helter-skelter of emotions one may find it difficult to comprehend exactly how Hamlet is actually feeling; is he pretending? Is he really mad? Does he really love Ophelia?. In a book we can be told how a character feels, however on the stage it is not always obvious. This...
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