Question

Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Answer 1

Hamlet's soliloquy in Act 4 Scene 4 marks a turning point in Hamlet's way of thinking, he makes a leap from inaction to action. When he sees Fortinbras of Norway and his army fighting for a worthless piece of land, all for the name of honor, Hamlet, a philosopher and a thinker, takes a look at himself and realizes that he stood aside and didn't  avenge the murder of his father commited by his own uncle, who then went on to marry his mother and became King. The actor playing Hamlet should appear pondering, in deep thought, reasoning with himself, but also determined, and he should reach a crecendo at the end when he makes the vow to finally take revenge in honor of his family. The audience should feel Hamlet's will to change things, to go from a man of thought to a man of actions, they should feel the struggle within himself but also his unwavering resolution to finally act, which he goes on to do in the rest of the play, culminating in one of the most tragic and heartbraking scenes in literature.