Four Soliloquies

In Hamlet's very first soliloquy, his depressed emotions as well as suicidal thoughts are first exposed to the audience; "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" (I.ii.129-130). Finally alone, hamlet is able to express his inner thoughts in result to anger from being humiliated by Claudius in front of everyone. He shows his first signs of wanting to kill himself as he wishes himself to just melt away; thinking death would be better than his present situation. "Fie on't! ah fie!" (I.ii.135). This expression of emotion is through sounds instead of words. Here, hamlet begins to emote and make grunts of frustration and anger. As he continues to poor out his emotions when he enters the subject of his mother marrying Claudius. The queen's lack of respect for hamlet and for his father truly bothers hamlet and his obsessive frustration over this matter is first revealed in this soliloquy. His bursts of pure emotion disrupts the syntax and his speech deteriorates as it becomes fragmented. This fragmented speech unveils hamlet's serious frustration with his family situation. He hides his true emotions in public which causes all these emotions to pile up over time. And he is revealed of these backed up emotions only when he is alone. His anger builds up over time and because he is so eager to let it out, his thoughts come out in uncontrollable bursts, ergo, his speech becomes broken. Towards the end of his speech, Hamlet's frustration becomes too overwhelming for himself and he is forced to be calm himself down with a self-soothing tone.