"To be or not to be- that is the question..." (III. i. 56)- so starts Hamlet's most famous and well-known soliloquy. In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the main character- Hamlet- goes through many transitions. These changes are very apparent through his soliloquies, each of which shows him in a different state of mind. His first soliloquy exists merely to show his "profound melancholia and the reasons for his despair" (Mabillard "Part 1..." 3). He refers to himself as "...a rogue and peasant slave" (II. ii. 577) by his second soliloquy and wishes he could "arouse his passions" (Mabillard " Part 1..." 5). As much as he wants to avenge his father's murder, he does nothing yet because he wants everything planned exactly so (Mabillard "Part 1..". 7). In Hamlet's most known soliloquy, he "sparks an internal philosophical debate" (Mabillard "Part 1..." 9) with himself about suicide. In a later soliloquy, he "feels capable of perpetrating evil... -murder" (Mabillard "Part 1..." 9). Yet, in......
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