Please comment on Hamlet's soliloquies.

This is a rather broad question! A soliloquy is a speech
or monologue that a character gives when no one is listening but the audience. In the
case of Hamlet, one soliloquy is given when he thinks no one is
listening. This occurs during the famous "To be or not to be" soliloquy at the beginning
of Act III. He doesn't realize that he is being spied upon by Polonius and Claudius.
Still, the results are the same. In all four of Hamlet's soliloquies, the audience
receives an inside look into Hamlet's suffering
head.

Hamlet's thoughts during his soliloquies cover many
different aspects of his life and the events that have taken place. In the first, Hamlet
laments over the fact that his mother has married his uncle, crying "Frailty, thy name
is woman!" He also discusses suicide in this first one, but not quite on a personal
level. At the end of this speech he says "break my heart, for I must hold my tongue." He
is upset because he suspects all of these horrible things regarding his father's death,
but he can't say anything or do anything about them. In the second soliloquy, Hamlet
discusses revenge and his cowardice at not doing anything about what he now knows was
the murder of his father. The "To be or not to be" soliloquy finds him discussing
suicide primarily. And finally, in the fourth soliloquy, he berates himself for his
inaction and vows that "from this time forth, my thoughts be bloody, or be nothing
worth."

In all, the soliloquies offer much needed
perspective into Hamlet's thoughts for the audience.