Hamlet’s soliloquies often have multiple tone shifts and different syntaxical structures that hint towards his heightened levels of tension and anxiety. As the play develops, it becomes evident that Hamlet’s psychological state is disintegrating and increasingly unpredictable.
Hamlet’s first soliloquy, found act 1, scene 1, gives the audience a starting point to trace Hamlet’s deteriorating psychological state. In this first soliloquy, Hamlet is mourning the loss of his father and is very distraught over his mother’s remarriage because of this Hamlet is psychologically and emotionally depressed and frustrated. To express his concern for the world its potential corruption when he questions God, asking “O God, God, / How