William Shakespeare's Hamlet is a tale that has been told for over 400 years. The meaning of the play relies heavily on Hamlet's soliloquies. Without these soliloquies, the scenes of Hamlet alone, would be useless. By allowing the audience tohear? hamlet think, it is much easier to interpret his feelings.
             Hamlet's first soliloquy (I,ii) is important to the play as it shows his inner conflict caused by the events of the play. It reveals his true feelings and as such emphasizes the difference between his physical appearance, and his feelings within himself.
             His mother's marriage to his uncle is the reason for Hamlet's despair. His constant repetition of the time in which it took the two to get married, "But two months dead?yet within a month?A little month?Within a month'most wicked speed?" (I,ii,138-157), suggests his disgust at the situation. This is well communicated to the audience, through the soliloquy. The passage of time that Hamlet describes gets less from "two months" to "Within a month". Hamlet's supposed contempt of his mother for only mourning a month is made evident.
             In this soliloquy, we also learn about Hamlet's love for his father and how this serves to emphasize the anger that he shows towards his mother. Hamlet communicates to the audience that his father was a great person, "?So excellent a king" (I,ii,139), who was "'so loving to my mother?" (I,ii,140). He also illustrates the contrast between the new king and the old, "Hyperion to a satyr" (I,ii,140). This example of extreme contrast increases the importance of Hamlet's father and yet also makes fun of Claudius' character.
             When Hamlet says, "?frailty, thy name is woman?" (I,ii,146), he is personifying frailty as the entire female race. The actions of his mother have lead him to believe that all women are capable of acting in this "wicked" way and that all women are weak. Hamlet feels that the people that he could look up t
             ...