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Authors use various literary elements to give insight into the mental
state of their characters. In Hamlet, William Shakespeare uses soliloquies to develop Hamlet's characterization. Hamlet's purpose, his feelings towards King Claudius and his mother Gertrude, and his prolonged grief, is cunningly displayed to the audience through his soliloquies.
Hamlet's first soliloquy in Act I, scene II, is a passionate passage that strongly contrasts Hamlet's true feelings to the one's that he openly shares with his Uncle and Mother. This soliloquy reveals Hamlet's distress and the reasons for his despair in an expression of anger, disgust, and grief through which he explains how everything in his life seems pointless and miserable. Hamlet's insanity is questioned for the first time early on in the play during this first soliloquy. He mourns the death of his father, is shocked by his mother's marriage to his uncle, and also feels extremely disappointed in his inability to hold any power......

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