The purpose of a soliloquy is to outline the thoughts and feelings of a certain
             character at a point in the play. It reveals the innermost beliefs of the character and offers
             an unbiased perspective as it is just the character talking to the audience and not to any
             other characters who may cause the character to withhold any true feelings. Therefore,
             Hamlet's first soliloquy (act 1, scene 2) is important to the play because it highlights his
             The distressed nature of Hamlet's mind is communicated well by the imagery that
             is used throughout this soliloquy . First, Hamlet says that he wants his "too too sullied
             flesh" to "...melt, thaw, and resolve itself in to a dew". This goes along with the
             upcoming lines, "How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this
             world", where the build up these adjectives highlights just how difficult it is for Hamlet
             to live in this world. It is as if Hamlet can not deal with life anymore. He needs to end
             his life in order to deal with the conflicts in his head.
             In the next soliloquy (act 3, scene 1) Hamlet is again thinking out loud of suicide.
             Hamlet enters, speaking thoughtfully and agonizingly to himself about the question of
             whether to commit suicide to end the emotional pain: "To be, or not to be-that is the
             question". He says that the miseries of life are such that no one would willingly bear
             them, except that they are afraid of "something after death". Because we do not know
             what to expect in the afterlife, we would rather "bear those ills we have," Hamlet says,
             "than fly to others that we know not of".
             In both soliloquies short, broken sentences are used. These help reveal and
             suggest the depth of Hamlet's thoughts. He has so much going on in his head that he
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