Hamlet Soliloquy

In Shakespeare play hamlet and John Milton book Paradise lost offer lenses into the complexity of the human psychology. In Shakespeare there is this prince Hamlet that is mourning the death of his father the king of Denmark when learns that his father was murdered by his uncle Claudius the present king of Denmark. In Milton Paradise lost Satan the fallen angel is cast down to hell because of his rebellious attitudes toward God. In Hamlet Soliloquy the reader is given an insight to the complexity of hamlets mind. In the course of the play, Hamlet is faced with multiple internal and external battles. In this soliloquy all of Hamlet’s conflicts are culminated and his possible solutions and theories are exposed. Hamlet repeatedly contemplates

He asks “Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them.” Hamlet’s longs for death to end his suffering, but he fears that if he commits suicide, he does not what is after death “But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveler returns, puzzles the will, and makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of”. Hamlet philosophically concludes that no one would choose to endure the pain of life if he or she were not afraid of what will come after death, and that it is this fear which causes complex moral considerations to interfere with the capacity for action. Hamlet soliloquy “To be or not to be” represents hamlet indecisive nature, at end of the soliloquy he is still left without an answer of whether the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” can be borne out since life after death is so uncertain. Hamlet character is in constant turmoil internally, he has a resolve that he must avenge his father murder but he is not capable of acting upon it until the end of the play when everybody is

“my dread of shame, Among the Spirits beneath, whom I seduc’d , With other promises… Than to submit, boasting I could subdue Th’Omnipotent”. Satan demonstrates that he cannot submit and repent since he preached against the two in hell. Milton’s usage of rhetorical question reveals Satan’s state of hopelessness when he questions, “is there no place, Left for Repentance, none for Pardon Left? None left but by submission”. Satan decides that there is no repent for him as false repentance would lead to an even greater downfall and he will also regret it if where to repent and return to heaven. The soliloquy not only reveals Satan’s hopelessness but further reveal his agony and the enormity of his inner conflict “Me Miserable! Which way shall I fly, Infinite Wrath, and infinite Despair? which way I fly is Hell: myself am Hell”. Although Satan despairs and regrets his rebellion, his anguish only stimulates his rising pride and evil instead of laying the foundations for remorse and repentance. Satan fearlessly exclaims, “Farewell Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my