Say It Solo (Soliloquies)

Say it Solo
(Messages From Hamlet’s Soliloquies) Throughout the Hamlet play, there are certain times when the main character says some things that Shakespeare’s audience may interpret in different ways. It’s even more hard to figure out what Shakespeare is meaning during his soliloquies that happen in the play. All three soliloquies in the first few acts have messages that go along with them. Hamlet is the character who says each one, and it is very apparent that he is feeling deep emotions in each act. When Shakespeare wrote this novel, it is very apparent that his intentions were to make the audience really think about what Hamlet was saying in his soliloquies. In the first three acts of Hamlet, all three soliloquies that Hamlet says
Shakespeare’s audience wasn’t exactly sure at first what he was most upset about. There were obviously way too many horrible things that had happened in his life in such a short period of time. However, most people will at first jump to the conclusion that he was most upset about the fact that his uncle killed his father so that he could become king. It is very apparent that he was more than upset about that. Although, in his first soliloquy, it was made pretty clear that he was actually more angry at his mother for moving on from his father to his uncle so fast more than anything else. On line 145, Hamlet’s first soliloquy said, “Why, she would hang on him as if increase of appetite had grown by what it fed on; and yet within a month - Let me not think on’t! Frailty, thy name is woman!” When he said these lines in his very first soliloquy, that’s when it became very obvious to Shakespeare’s audience what he was most upset about. Hamlet was very depressed because he didn’t know how his mom could watch his dad die, then just move on not even a couple months later to his brother. It hurt him, but he decided that he just needed to hold in what he wanted to say, because he didn’t want to hurt his