• The soliloquy begins with Hamlet's thoughts on how time is running by and he still hasn't done anything. He says:And spur my dull revenge! What is a man,If his chief good and market of his time (Hamlet IV.iv. 32-35)
             • In these lines Hamlet is thinking about all the time he has wasted in not taking action. He sees how everything around him is taking shape, all except his own actions. He goes on to say "Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd "(36-39) Here Hamlet is saying that every man has reason, and that reason should be put to good use. He also expresses the thought that he has "......cause and will and strength and means to do't" (45-46) but still waits and thinks of taking action instead of taking action.
             • After learning of Fortinbras' plan against Poland, Hamlet is disgusted with his inability to avenge his father's murder. He wonders how he has just "let all sleep" even after the killing of his father and the moral death of his mother, (56-59). He is even more ashamed when he thinks of the twenty-thousand men who are willing to go to their deaths for a valueless piece of land that's not even big enough for their graves, (59-65). All of this is going on while he is still thinking about his revenge. This was enough to set his mind once and for all. At the end he decides that from that moment on, all he will think about is his revenge against anyone that has done injustice towards him. He says "O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing more " (65-66)
             • Hamlet's personality is shown against another Prince who is the exact opposite of him in the same situation. By this the reader learns more about Hamlet's characteristics and the way he thinks
             • Fortinbras' pursuit of his goal has given Hamlet the example on how to act if an opportunity presents itself. Hamlet is so determi...