Le’Chelle Alexander
World Literature
Period D
January 21, 2011
Hamlet Soliloquy Essay
Hamlet is reciting this soliloquy after he threatens to go to Wittenberg to get away from the awkward marriage between his mother and his uncle, king Claudius and get away from the new kingdom that has been created under the ruling of king Claudius. Hamlet begins making this speech after his mother and the king leaves. He is venting out his emotions in private because he doesn’t feel that his views were heard when he spoke to his parents. Hamlet is experiencing a lot of stress during this time because he is still mourning the death of his father and he dislikes the swift and strange marriage between his uncle and mom; wanting to escape the madness he wishes to return to the university in Wittenberg, but his request is denied by his parents. Hamlet is disgusted with his mother’s quick decision “Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, must I remember? Why, she (would) hang on him As an increase of appetite had grown,” (Act.1.Sc.2 146-149). Hamlet is very depressed by his parents quick decision to let him to return to the university in Wittenberg and wishes her were dead “O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,” (Act.1.Sc.2 133-134).
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