PG 832: #9

I chose the soliloquy from I.ii.129-59 because Hamlet's true emotional personality is openly expressed and easy to see. Hamlet states: "But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: / So excellent a king; that was, to this, / Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother..."(I.ii.138-140) which shows how much he looked up to his father. Hamlet refers to his father as an excellent King as well as very loving to his wife, Hamlet's mother, further showing how well-rounded he was as an individual. However, Hamlet also connotes, in the same soliloquy, how he sexually thinks about his mother often. He says that he is ashamed of his thoughts: "Let me not think on't--Frailty, thy name is woman--"(I.ii.146) but still talks about the grotesque images. This soliloquy shows much about Hamlet through the sadness brought by his father's death and the disgusting thoughts that go through his head.