more than mope around depressed and rant and rave about his fathers death. Whats Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, He the motive and the cue for passion, That I have. (134) Hamlet doubts his own character and obedience to his father in this Soliloquy. He ponders whether or not he is a coward because he has yet to kill Claudius. But I am pigeon livered and lack gall, To make oppression bitter, or ere this, I should ha fattee all the region kites, With this slavess offal. (136) During this soliloquy Hamlet contrives a plan to entrap Claudius so that hamlet can be totally sure that Claudius is guilty. I have heard, That guilty creatures sitting at a play, Have, by the very running of the scene, Been struck so to the soul that presently, They have proclaimed their malefactions, For murder, Though it have no tongue, will speak, with the most miraculous organ. (136) This soliloquy is very important because it demonstrates Hamlets anger at himself and Claudius, and how Hamlet intends to obtain the final piece of evidence about his fathers death. He needs this evidence so he can be absolutely sure that Claudius killed King Hamlet.In the third soliloquy it is obvious that Hamlet is extremely depressed. Hamlet is seriously considering suicide but he wonders if death is worse then living. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, theres the rub: (142) Hamlet considers suicide throughout the play but when he gets close to doing it he finds an excuse not to. He wonders if death is more hellish than life, and asks why would humans go through all the pain and suffering that life has to offer, if they could end it all by killing themselves. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressors wrong, The proud mans contumely, The pangs of despised love, The laws delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus m...
