Hamlet Essay - Soliloquy A soliloquy occurs when a character shares his feelings and thoughts on a subject with the audience alone. No other character hears what that initial character is saying. Hamlet has six major soliloquy’s throughout the course of the play. Through them he expresses many of his own opinions and views, such as his feelings about his own free will, his job as an avenger and his views of women. Hamlet …showed first 75 words of 880 total…

…showed last 75 words of 880 total…long to avenge his fathers death and that he too can be strong enough to act upon his fathers (ghost) will. He comes to the conclusion that all his thoughts and actions from that point on will be towards avenging his father’s death. “…O, from this time forth / My thoughts be bloody or be nothing worth!” (4, iiii, 67/68) In this one soliloquy Hamlet went from debating his exsistence to understanding his true purpose in life.