Compare And Contrast Hamlet's Soliloquies

From a young age, children are raised to be able to decipher right from wrong, however, as they get older and grow into adulthood this fine line becomes blurry and complicated to comprehend. In one of Shakespeare 's most popular and powerful tragedies, Hamlet, Hamlet is conveying his innermost thoughts and feelings to the audience through his many famous soliloquies. Each of these seven speeches address two different versions of reality. One, being an ideal utopia where people live harmoniously while obeying a specific set of rules, and if they do not, they are rightfully disciplined. The opposing reality being a place of filth that is laden with liars, murderers and cheats. Here, people will frequently get away with their deceitful and scrofulous …show more content…
However, he obeys God 's rule of not committing suicide even though all he wants to do is put an end to his pain and suffering. This is a moral thing to do given the Christian belief system that he follows in his ideal world. This ideal world takes a tragic turn into harsh reality when his father suddenly dies. Shakespeare also destroys Hamlet 's ideal Christian reality when he finds out his mother has married his uncle, Claudius, only two months after the passing of his father. This disturbing and disgusting reality that has been forced upon Hamlet is almost too much for him to handle. His mother, Gertrude, has proven to be a hypocrite. She loved his father so much only to slide into incestuous sheets with his uncle after a few months. The light in Hamlet 's life was his father and how amazing he was in his eyes; his father was like the sun God Hyperion. In opposition to his fathers light, the darkness of Claudius ' evil clouded over him. To Hamlet, he was compared to a lecherous satyr that too quickly took over his deceased father 's