In Shakespearean literature, soliloquies are important dramatic devices. They allow the reader to understand a character better as a play unfolds. In Hamlet, the soliloquies performed by the title character help reveal his innermost thoughts and feelings aloud. Hamlet's soliloquies are the keys to his internal struggles, which are hidden under a mask. From Hamlet's soliloquies in Act I, II, III, and IV, one learns of his feelings towards the new marriage between his mother and his uncle, his indecisiveness towards the revenge for his father's death, and his overwhelming feelings of depression and thoughts of suicide. The soliloquies performed by Hamlet help reveal this.
             Hamlet's soliloquies about the new marriage occur before he sees the ghost of his father. His feelings on the marriage are more accurate beforehand due to the fact that his thoughts are un-influenced by the means of his father's death. Through Hamlet's soliloquy in act I scene II, it is evident that Hamlet struggles with the idea of the new marriage, his mothers mourning, and how he should not reveal his true feelings. Hamlet seems confused as to why his mother would remarry only two months after his father's death.
             But two months dead-- nay, not so much, not two.
             So excellent a king, that was to this
             Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
             That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
             Hamlet compares his father and Claudius to Hyperion, a Greek Titan, and a satyr, a mythological woodland creature depicted as having the pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry. Hamlet also describes how loving his father was to his mother.
             Traditionally, in the eighteenth century, mourning of a loved one would continue for a long time as a sign of resprct to the deceased. Another aspect which bothers Hamlet about the marriage is the fact that his mother had only mourned for one month, until she started to become ...