Hamlet Soliloquy

dness. In fact, his sorrow is so great that "Forty thousand brothers/Could not (with all their quantity and love) Make up my sum. I'm not calling them caricatures, but there is definitely a caricature-like side to some of them. It would have most likely been off with the head of the murderer. Hamlet is self-conscious, while the majority of characters that surround him are not. Hamlet wants to before Claudius gets up, declaring he cannot pray; "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go" (Claudius, Act III, Scene 3). Most of the other characters would probably have acted much quicker than Hamlet if they were in his position. Any other character in the play would not have stayed as quiet as Hamlet does (confiding only in his best friend, and even keeping the truth from his mother until the end of Act III). Most readers of Hamlet agree, to some extent or another, that Hamlet is well justified in expressing anger. Perhaps the first incident of Hamlet's true expression of anger is during his scene with the ghost in Act I. He is particularly interested in the idea that things may seem different from what they really are, just like the people that surround him. " He continues to abuse the ideas of marriage and womanhood to Ophelia in his feigned madness until he finally leaves. Hamlet is given the chance to avenge "this foul and most unnatural murder" when he sees Claudius praying.