Voltemand’s purpose in this scene is only to tell news of Norway. There is the Hamlet who is rude bluntly rude to Polonius and acts crazy. The transition from the Hamlet of Act One Scene Five, so willing and eager to kill Claudius, to the Hamlet of Act Two Scene Two, where he is witty and evasive and ultimately impotent, is really quite absurd. I believe that was Shakespeare’s purpose. Hamlet seems to act differently or maybe even have these different personalities. Which leads up to Hamlet's soliloquy. I question why he would go about calling himself a “stallion” (568) to scheming his plot to reveal his uncle’s guilt.
What interests me in Hamlet’s soliloquy is the changing of subject on line 568.
Hamlet’s first soliloquy in Act 1 Scene 2 reveals important key thoughts Hamlet holds for related characters.
Hamlet’s second soliloquy is nearly twice s long as the first, which is understandable considering that Shakespeare intent in this piece was to show the reader the confusion that Hamlet exhibits, but at the same to the clear intent Hamlet holds in his mind. LORD POLONIUS Do you know me, my lord? In Act two-scene two new characters are presented. In Act 2, Scene 2, Hamlet uses many examples of personification. At the end Hamlet describes himself as being a horrible son, prince and not seeking the proper revenge. From the Hamlet movie directed by Kenneth Branagh in 1996, this is Hamlet's 3rd soliloquy. HAMLET Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, is to be Young Fortinbras’ uncle does in fact have power and wants to imprison Young Fortinbras. In Hamlet's soliloquy of Act 2, Scene 2, Shakespeare develops characterization of Hamlet by connecting his feeling to the player in which eventually builds up to his true intention. As Quan points out: "Shakespeare alludes to Hecuba in order to characterize Gertrude". Tweaks me by the nose?
Hamlet starts the beginning of his soliloquy with "now I am alone" (508), in a tone that he's had enough of it and that he needs to get away from other people. In Hamlet Act 2, Scene 2 it starts off with the queen and king sending Hamlets' friends, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to visit him to see whats wrong with him. He not only uses it when speaking about Fortune but he also personifies his soul and the idea of soul being a spiritual existence. Hamlet’s soliloquy comes in act 2 scene 2 of Hamlet, shortly after he has spoken with the players or actors, and just before he hatches his fiendish plan to try to determine the guilt of his uncle (which he comes up with towards the end of the soliloquy). Hamlet states that if anyone should do these things to mock or humiliate him for his intransigence and his weakness, he should not feel...(The entire section contains 3 answers and 1,087 words.) Hamlet denies these gifts of life, saying “Man delights not me – nor women neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.” (II ii line 303) Though love is an abstract and an eternal happiness waiting to be gained, Hamlet may think of love as the instrument to his insanity. In act two scene two, Hamlet's soliloquy offers an explanation to his cowardice and stalled "murther" of good ol' uncle-father Claudius. When Polonius comes to tell the king and queen about his ideas about Hamlet’s behavior, the queen gives her own reasoning. One can interpret this changing of subjects as a means of satisfying his own feelings. The reason they are there is because the king and queen sent for them to help figure out what is bothering Hamlet.
Polonius is stalled from telling his story by the entering of Voltemand. HAMLET Excellent well; you are a fishmonger. He seems to have forgotten or has given up on the beauties and the pleasures life and Ophelia has given him. (Enter HAMLET, reading) O, give me leave: How does my good Lord Hamlet? Guildenstern and Rosencrantz are now a part of the play.
Finally there is this Hamlet who readers can see his true grieving and his true, clear feeling toward his current situation.
LORD POLONIUS Honest, my lord!
He has gone through a great deal of preparation so if it were a matter of the actual revelation, then he would have no reason to be nervous or to doubt whether he is a coward or not. It seems as if it is no longer a matter of avenging his father. Hamlet's soliloquy in act 2, scene 2 of Hamlet is significant because it highlights his internal conflict and explains his chosen course of action to verify Claudius's guilt.
Avenging his father doesn’t seem to be his top priority anymore, creating meaning for himself and discovering himself is.
In the interpretation that Hecuba represents Gertrude, then perhaps Hamlet is not as "pigeon-liver'd"(557) or "gall[less]"(557) as he believes, and in thought of his dear mother has yet to take action against Claudius. And the player basically put on a play of the Aenied. In Hamlet's soliloquy of Act 2, Scene 2, Shakespeare develops characterization of Hamlet by connecting his feeling to the player in which eventually builds up to his true intention. He is using the play and the matter with his uncle as a means to justify his recent madness and his self-loathing. Read Act 2, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's Hamlet, side-by-side with a translation into Modern English. HAMLET Well, God-a-mercy. This is ironic because Hamlet later mentions that Denmark, his home, is like a prison. breaks my pate across?
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It’s almost as though we’ve suddenly landed in another play – one not about revenge, but about something else, about madness or politics or about the very meaning of acting. Plucks off my beard, and blows it in my face? My question is... is Hamlet's perception of himself correct?
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