FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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loving Ophelia.
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talking to the ghost.
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his inaction.
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his vengeful nature.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The soliloquy is essentially all about life and death: “To be or not to be” means “To live or not to live” (or “To live or to die"). Hamlet discusses how painful and miserable human life is, and how death (specifically suicide) would be preferable, would it not be for the fearful uncertainty of what comes after death.
Detailed explanation-2: -He’s reprimanding himself for failing to take action, but it’s only through thinking through his predicament that he arrives upon his plan for the actors to perform a play that, he hopes, will tease out Claudius’ guilt.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Branches of an Act: Shakespeare’s Hamlet Explains His Inaction. In the “How all occasions … ” soliloquy Hamlet expresses his own failure to understand why he has not fulfilled his promise to kill Claudius notwithstanding that he has the “cause, will, strength, and means to do’t”.
Detailed explanation-4: -42. For what is Hamlet criticizing himself in the final soliloquy of this act? His inability to kill Claudius; he is upset that the actor seems to have a more emotional response to something fake than Hamlet did to his father’s death.