Question

Explain the conflict revealed in Hamlet's soliloquy in Scene 1. What specific circumstances give rise to reflections

Answer 1

In this case Hamlet's soliloquy serves the purpose of informing the audience of his intense negative feelings toward his mother's remarriage and highlighting the inner turmoil those feelings create within him.

Answer 2

Answer:

Explanation:

The soliloquy is from Act III scene i of the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. This scene is a follow up of the previous scenes of prince Hamlet's revenge plans for King Claudius' act of  murdering King Hamlet.

In the soliloquy, Hamlet is debating whether it will be better to die than do the gruesome and detestable act of killing the King, his step father /uncle. His conflicting interest to see his father's murderers to be put to death against the actual deed of committing murder himself left him contemplate sui cide, a dilemma within himself. He begins to think of death and how it is just a mere "sleep", for in dying, no one really dies but sleep peacefully.

These reflections on death, dying and sleeping, getting dreams all stem from the very fact that he wanted to see about justice for his father's death. But he also could not do anything as the main accused was his step father and uncle, who, if killed, will leave his mother in pain again. he talks of the many 'negatives' of being who he is,

"For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,

Th' oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,

The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,

The insolence of office, and the spurns

That patient merit of th' unworthy takes,"