Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Investigating the Function of the Main Soliloquies in...
Investigating the Function of the Main Soliloquies in Shakespeares Hamlet ââ¬Å"Hamletâ⬠is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in around 1601 when Queen Elizabeth the first was on the throne. In the play we see the royal court of Denmark becoming more and more corrupt with ghosts, murder, madness and incest, culminating in the highest death toll in any of Shakespeareââ¬â¢s plays. The lead character of Hamlet is an intellectual whose aim in the play is to avenge his fatherââ¬â¢s death by killing his uncle, the king. However his tendency to think too much and inability to carry out his actions gets in the way of him bringing the king to justice, and this hesitancy is a major recurring theme in the play.â⬠¦show more contentâ⬠¦To top it all off there are rumours that a ghostly vision is appearing nightly on the castle battlements. Leading up to his first soliloquy, hamlets mother is trying to tell Hamlet to stop grieving for his father. This only angers Hamlet further, until he explains his feelings of anger and despair to the audienc e in his soliloquy. The soliloquy starts by using imagery to describe Hamletââ¬â¢s feelings towards the situation. Language such as ââ¬Å"flat and unprofitableâ⬠is used when describing Hamletââ¬â¢s world, telling the audience that he feels hopeless and in despair. The imagery of ââ¬Å"an unweeded gardenâ⬠conjures images of a nasty, messy situation in the royal court, and when he mentions ââ¬Å"things rank and gross in natureâ⬠the audience would start to realise that the court is corrupt in Hamletââ¬â¢s eyes. It becomes clear in the middle of the soliloquy that Hamlet blames this corrupt situation on the hasty marriage of his mother to Claudius. In the passage, Hamlet likens his deceased father to Hyperion, who was a Titan God in Greek mythology. Then Hamlet likens the new king, Claudius, to a ââ¬Å"satyrâ⬠which was in those days used to describe a grotesque half-man half-goat. Hamlets reference to his dead father as Hyperion and to his uncle Claudius as a satyr
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