Part one of term paper
Authors use various literary elements to give insight into the mental composition of their characters. In Shakespeare's “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,” we can trace Hamlet's mental process through his soliloquies. Hamlet's first soliloquy reveals him to be thoroughly disgusted with Gertrude, Claudius, and the world in general. “How weary, ...

Part two of term paper
... reason, would have mourn'd longer” (1285). The worst part is that he cannot tell them how he feels. In his second soliloquy, Hamlet becomes curious and suspicious after hearing of the ghost. “My father's spirit in arms! All is not well; I doubt some foul play” (1287), he said. Hamlet feels that the presence of the ghost indicates that his father died due to dubious circumstance. After talking with his father's ghost, in the 3rd Soliloquy Hamlet is angered by the news that Claudius had mu ...