A soliloquy occurs when a character shares his feelings and thoughts on a subject with the audience alone. No other character hears what that initial character is saying. Hamlet has six major soliloquy's throughout the course of the play. Through them he expresses many of his own opinions and views, such as his feelings about his own free will, his job as an avenger and his views of women.
             Hamlet expresses his view of women through at least three major soliloquies. In his first Hamlet shows his disgust and confusion over his mother marrying his uncle so quickly after her husband's death, a husband that in Hamlet's mind was perfect. Therefore he could not understand why a woman would not mourn her husband's death for an extended period of time but rather move on to another man so quickly, especially her husbands brother. The reader will begin to understand his tainted view of women when he remarks, " Let me not think on 't; frailty thy name is woman!" (I ii 146) He further extends his disgust with women in his second soliloquy. This time he shows his belief that all women are wicked and destructive. He feels that they prey upon men, and use them to benefit themselves. The reader knows this by the way Hamlet responds to his father's ghost in act two. After he hears the truth about his father's murder he remarks, " O Most pernicious woman!/O villain, villain, smiling, damned, villain!" (II V 106/107) Now Hamlet knowing his uncle killed his father is even more distressed over the idea that his mother has married not only his uncle but his father's murderer. Further more he believes his mother has married his uncle because of the way his uncle had seduced her. This increases his hatred for his uncle and his need to to get revenge on behalf of his father. Later on Hamlet sees Fortinbras and seeing how he is such an influential leader, he begins t
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