Sililoquy II
How accurate is Hamlet's self assessment in the soliloquy of Act II, scene ii?The soliloquy of Hamlet that closes Act II enables the audience to truly bear witness to how he currently perceives himself, rather than making assumptions based on his "antic disposition" (I.v.180). Within the opening lines of the speech Hamlet refers to himself as a "rogue and peasant slave" (II.ii.44) This phrase has both an undertone and overtone. The fact that he deems himself the equivalent of a "peasant" conveys not only Hamlet's feelings of inadequacy, but only his embarrassment at the latter. He is of noble blood and is not only disappointing himself, but feels that he is falling short of the integrity of his station. Hamlet is not only disgraced by his inaction as a son, but as the Prince of Denmark, for he is "subject to his birth" (I.ii.18). The term "slave" could be referring to Hamlet's feelings of helplessness as he is obliged to the will of the ghost. Prior to when the commandment of the ghost is given, he feels in advance his limitations and scantiness. When in his first soliloquy he contrasts his uncle with his father, he addshence opposing himself to the doer of g
By stating that he "peak[s]" (562) like a "John-a-dreams" (563), Hamlet is shedding light on his emotional instability. His deaths man Pyrrhus, "trick'd" in "total gules", appears as the blazon of a killer. Upon the ghost revealing the murder of his father, Hamlet mentioned his "prophetic soul" (I. Hamlet is specifically becoming what the Ghost specially warned him not to be: "I find thee apt. Taking all of the above into consideration leads one to come to the conclusion that though it is understandable that Hamlet should feel dejected at his procrastination in killing Claudius, he can not entirely be blamed for his inaction. The father in whom he saw the highest perfection of manhood in the image of the gods was yet a man possessing a human nature from the guilt of which he is not yet released. Hamlet then compares himself to the player. One can be sympathetic towards Hamlet and deem it ridiculous that his self scolding would be evoked by the acting of a player whose craft it is to pretence, having no real experience in relation to Hamlet's quandary. reat deeds and implicitly to the father he would emulate. But he ominously goes on, "What else? /And shall I couple hell?" Later he does precisely that when, in the soliloquy on the Player at the end of the second act, he says he is "Prompted to [his] revenge by heaven and hell". His father exclaims his antagonism at being killed "With all his [his] imperfections on [his] head".
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