In a disjointed outpouring of disgust, anger, sorrow, and grief, Hamlet explains that, without exception, everything in his world is either futile or contemptible. The primary function of the soliloquy is to reveal to the audience Hamlet's profound melancholia and the reasons for his despair. Hamlet's passionate first soliloquy provides a striking contrast to the controlled and artificial dialogue that he must exchange with Claudius and his Court. That grows to seed things rank and gross in nature
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!įie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Seneca's Tragedies and the Elizabethan Drama Hamlet's Melancholy: The Transformation of the Prince Hamlet's Humor: The Wit of Shakespeare's Prince of Denmark Shakespeare's Fools: The Grave-Diggers in Hamlet The Baker's Daughter: Ophelia's Nursery RhymesĪn Excuse for Doing Nothing: Hamlet's Delayįoul Deeds Will Rise: Hamlet and Divine Justice The Elder Hamlet: The Kingship of Hamlet's Father The Death of Polonius and its Impact on Hamlet's Characterīlank Verse and Diction in Shakespeare's Hamlet Hamlet's Antic Disposition: Is Hamlet's Madness Real?įive Classic Solutions of the Hamlet Problem
In Secret Conference: The Meeting Between Claudius and Laertesĭefending Claudius - The Charges Against the King Soliloquy Analysis: How all occasions do inform against me. Soliloquy Analysis: Now might I do it pat. Soliloquy Analysis: Tis now the very witching time of night. Soliloquy Analysis: O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!. Philological Examination Questions on Hamlet Imagery of Disease and Corruption in Hamlet Please see each scene for detailed explanatory notes and study questions. Please see the bottom of this page for helpful Hamlet resources.
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