Hamlet's Soliloquy
Hamlet’s soliloquy in act 3, scene 3 reveals many facts about Hamlet’s character and clears up aspects of his character that were unclear before. One of the most revealed facts about Hamlet in this speech is his gravitation toward procrastination and indecision. The way Hamlet puts off killing Claudius is no different than a student putting homework off until the next day. Like a student, Hamlet finds reasons to put off his actions by rationalizing the situation. In the first few lines of Hamlet’s soliloquy, he pauses and decides to think about his actions. Before the speech he is intent upon killing Claudius. A modern example of this mindset would be a student sitting down to start his math homework. Like Hamlet, the student has planned to sit down and set aside time to do the job at hand. Once Hamlet realizes that killing Claudius would send him to heaven, he pauses and says, “That would be scanned,” or that the situation should be thought out. This is much like the student hearing a popular TV show from the next room and stopping to think if his time is better spent on the task at hand or being entertained by the television. Hamlet says, “A villain kills my father, and for that I, his sole son, d
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Approximate Word count = 1057
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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