Renown throughout the literacy world as William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy, Hamlet, depicts a story of a young Dane Prince contending with feelings over the sudden death of his father King Hamlet, the rapid succession of his Uncle Claudius to the thrown which peculiarly bypasses the Prince, and the new King's swift marriage to Hamlets widowed mother Gertrude. Other issues that are portrayed as the play unfolds deem important to understanding Hamlets frame of mind. These eloquently woven plots and sub plots work in an intricate suffuse, which creates a play that contends with such major issues as revenge and madness, and such lesser subplots as incest, spying and parent and child relationships. .
The young Prince Hamlet nature is an erratic and moves to and fro with each scene. His emotional state and mental condition can be determined as he is a thinking soliloquist. Prose is used throughout Hamlet soliloquies; nobles always spoke in verse. With the presentation of the first soliloquy in Act 1 scene 2, shows Hamlet wishing he could take his own life "O that this too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew" (lines 129-130) but his Catholic faith and the fear of purgatory prevents him" Or that the Everlasting had not fixed, His canon" gainst self-slaughter. O God, O God" (lines 131-132) Although the soliloquy is depressing hearing the long summary of his life and the state of Denmark there is no reason to construe Hamlet is mad in any way shape or form from what we are told. Anger is what is deduced within the first soliloquy towards his mother at his disgust at the sin of incest at marrying and sleeping with her dead husbands brother, and ultimately towards all women " Frailty, thy name is woman" (line 145-146) The feeling of imminent dread and doom is hinted upon at this point "It is not, nor cannot come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue" (line 158-159) On the closing of this soliloquy it is interesting to note the fact Hamlet hold his tongue and does not tell his mother what he feels about the whole situation.