1. Read the essay by AC Bradley on Hamlet. Open link right. Read Lecture 3. Sections 2-4.
soliloquy — from the Latin solus ("alone") and loqui ("to speak") — is a speech that one gives to oneself. In a play, a character delivering a soliloquy talks to herself — thinking out loud, as it were — so that the audience better understands what is happening to the character internally.
2. You will go through the soliloquies of Hamlet. They are found here: Hamlet Soliloquies
With each soliloquy, you need to identify the following things:
- Why does Shakespeare use soliloquies to reveal characters' thoughts?
- Why is it important that the character is alone on stage during the soliloquy?
- What is the major theme of this soliloquy
- What is the tone of this soliloquy
- What major allusions does Hamlet make?
- How does this soliloquy answer what has happened in the plot... or hint at what is to come?
- Does Shakespeare utilize irony in anyway?
- What rhetorical devices are employed? Parallelism? Rhetorical Questions? Repetition?
- What do we learn about the character?
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