The purpose of a soliloquy is to outline the thoughts and feelings of a certain character at a point in the play. It reveals the innermost beliefs of the character and offers an unbiased perspective as it is just the character talking to the audience and not to any other characters who may cause the character to withhold any true feelings. Therefore, Hamlet’s first soliloquy (act 1, scene 2) is important to the play because it …showed first 75 words of 338 total…

…showed last 75 words of 338 total…expect in the afterlife, we would rather “bear those ills we have,” Hamlet says, “than fly to others that we know not of”. In both soliloquies short, broken sentences are used. These help reveal and suggest the depth of Hamlet’s thoughts. He has so much going on in his head that he wants to commit suicide and is therefore trying to rationalize his feelings to work up the courage to go through with it.