Monday 3 October 2011

How do the soliloquies in Hamlet relate to one another?

What the
soliloquies all have in common is a juxtaposition between
a harsh reality
of an immoral world with his idealistic Christian
reality
.  

Each of his speeches, in one way or another, addresses
two different kinds of realities.  On the one hand, the
ideal world has a set of rules that all obey, and if they do not,
they are punished.  

In the world of reality,
people are liars and cheats, and often do get away with their immoral and
duplicitous actions.

On the one hand, his Christian beliefs (it is doubtful
that Oldshared 's Protestantism; if he did,would not ask revenge but...



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