Victor Morrow
1/15/03
Hamlet’s First Soliloquy
Hamlet’s world is crashing rapidly down over his head as the era of Old King Hamlet comes to an end and the era of Claudius comes into being. The world has not allotted Hamlet a movement to grieve before his mother and the kingdom has moved on without him. His mother has remarried to what he believes is a villain. Without being able to return to Wittenberg, Hamlet no longer has an escape from his problems. The ideals, religious beliefs, and family have betrayed. With his father dead and his mother a villain’s whore, he has no one to confide in. Claudius tries to impose fatherly advice upon him, but solutions from the source of the problem do him little good. Denmark has changed drastically in government in less than a month and the threat of war is on their doorstep. His back is against the wall and life is becoming unbearable.