What do Hamlet’s soliloquies tell us about his true nature?

Soliloquy is a speech in a play, in which a character, who is alone on the stage speaks his/her thoughts aloud (Oxford’s Student Dictionary of English). Because a person can’t tell lies to himself the thoughts reflect the truth and the truth is used to tell us a lot about the character and his way of seeing the life. Acting is not just saying words, and not just moving around the stage, it all is about expressing the feelings and emotions and during the soliloquies we can see the character’s inner side, what is going on in his mind. In Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet” most of the speeches, when the character is alone on the stage are quite powerful and play a significant role in the piece. Because of Hamlet’s father’s death, his mind is full of thoughts and feelings and those thoughts and feelings are expressed in the way he acts and in the way he speaks. Although there are different interpretations of “Hamlet” on stage or on screen you can always see that hot-blooded, m...