Hamlet Hamlet by William Shakespeare is a tragic play about a young man who is out to avenge his fathers’ “murder”. Although very different, these two soliloquies have many things in common. In both soliloquies we are able to see Hamlet’s insecurity. This is very clear in the 1st line of the first soliloquy, “O, what a rouge and peasant slave am I”. In this line, Hamlet’s frustration is very clear and how …showed first 75 words of 327 total…

…showed last 75 words of 327 total…in the 2nd soliloquy he simply uses the phrase “bestial oblivion” (mindlessness like the beasts’). This is noticeable in the quote “Now whether it be bestial oblivion or some scruple of thinking too precisely on Th’event…” Despite how different the two topics of the soliloquies might seem, there are similarities and differences that define them. All of the above are just a few of the many that are still left to be looked into.