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This 4 page paper analyzes two of Hamlet’s speeches to see how he has grown, and why he has failed to take action against his uncle. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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if there something that to explain his failure to carry out his revenge. Discussion The play has a number of soliloquies but this paper concentrates on only two. The first
is the classic "to be or not to be"; the second "How all occasions do inform against me." They are sufficiently separated that its possible to see whether or not
Hamlet has changed between the delivery of one and the next. The first one is of course world famous, and trying to analyze it probably wont add much to the
scholarship. The speech is a contemplation on the idea of suicide, and shows just how depressed and upset Hamlet is by the situation in which he finds himself. The soliloquy
is almost 40 lines long, beginning in Act III, scene 1, line 55 and running through line 88. Throughout the entire speech, Hamlet talks about the idea of ending his
life, and suggests that the only reason he (or anyone else) would not do so is that there is no way anyone can know what happens after death: we would
rather bear the problems that we have than "fly to others that we know not of" (III.i.81). Its not until the last four lines before the mention of Ophelia that
he actually tells us whats bothering him: "Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought, / And enterprises of great pitch and moment / With this regard their currents
turn awry, / And lose the name of action" (III.i. 84-87). At this point in the play Hamlet has seen his fathers Ghost, and the spirit has told him
that his death was not accidental, but murder-he was killed by his brother, Claudius, who is now king. Immediately upon this horrible revelation he determines to avenge his father, but
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