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What do Hamlet’s soliloquy’s reveal about human nature?

Hamlet’s soliloquy’s reveals that humanity is innately flawed. Hamlet’s conscience and consequential
inaction provide a medium to which this is illustrated. Hamlet’s Soliloquy’s encapsulates his
individual struggle with conscience and self-worth.

In his first soliloquy Hamlet highlights his futility and distress with the state of the world as well as
his contempt towards Claudius and his mother. This is illustrated through the biblical allusion in the
metaphor “unweeded garden” accentuating his view of the current world as sullied and corrupted.
Self deprication “My father’s brother but no more like my father than I to Hercules”

The second soliloquy Hamlet denounces his own inaction. This is illustrated through the self
deprication in the metaphor “I am pigeon liver’d and lack gall”. However later on he acknowledges
his internal conflict through the binary biblical allusion “Prompted to my revenge by heaven and
hell” demonstrating

his ego’s conflict between id and his super-ego that. This being the conflict between the will to
avenge his fathers death and the his moral compass. This is also indicative shakespeares time and
the conflict between orthodox religions and humanism and new secular values.

The third soliloquy is quite different from the last to as it debates whether it is better to accept
suffering or face it head on Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of
outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles…?

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