Hamlets Second Soliloquy

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Hamlets second soliloquy In Hamlet's second soliloquy the tones of worthlessness and failure are prevalent and serve to emphasise the dissatisfaction he feels with his actions, or lack of action. He rambles continually and wallows in his own self-pity as he realises he has not fulfilled his promise to the Ghost to avenge his father's murder. Instead, he has thought more about his own death than that of his father's supposed murderer, Claudius, and is a piteous coward for taking no action towards this murder. At the beginning of his soliloquy Hamlet has witnessed a player acting a scene filled with emotion; the scene reminds Hamlet of his own lack of dedication to his cause. It is "monstrous" that the player "in a dream of passion" could put so much emotion into the piece that he even cried "all for nothing". Hamlet is amazed but also suffers from a feeling of pitiful inadequacy because he sees that this player, acting out a speech about a fictional woman who is no more than a character on paper, has put much more emotion and passion into his speech than Hamlet has into avenging his own father's death. Hamlet loved his father and still continues to mourn for him long after anyone else, and while he should be putting as much emotion as the player into killing his father's murderer he is not. He is putting less emotion into his cause than the player into a fictional situation. "Not for a king/ upon whose property and most dear life/ A damned defeat was made" does Hamlet act. Claudius stole all the late King Hamlet had and now the late king suffers in Purgatory because he did not have the chance to confess his sins while his own brother sits on the throne and lays in bed with his wife; still, Hamlet does nothing. He is like a whore, a woman, who utters words and words yet they are meaningless for he does not act upon any of them. While
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