Posted by shadow_bitten on December 11, 19103 at 20:31:38:

In Reply to: Re: Importance of 'Hecuba' Soliloquy posted by Resurrection Joe on February 08, 1999 at 19:51:25:

The importance of Hecuba in this soliloquy is that she saw her son and husband die in the Trojan War. Her husband pursued Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in existance, despite the fact that he was already married, and that is what started the Trojan War. The Greeks after all, needed to reclaim Helen. But, I digress, and return to Hamlet.

Hamlet feels guilty for not mourning his father's death enough in public, and for not doing the Elizabethan deed of killing his father's killer. Elizabethan audiences would already hate Hamlet, and this soliloquy, another step towards the Modern Man, has Hamlet questioning the Elizabethan convention of killing the killer of his father, just as Fortinbras will attempt to do.

Hamlet contemplates suicide, but does not kill himself because there is no proof of the afterlife being positive or negative.

But wait, didn't he see his father on the battlements. Methinks Hamlet may be a little touched.....

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: The importance of Hecuba in this soliloquy is that she saw her son and husband die in the Trojan War. Her husband pursued Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman in existance, despite the fact that he was already married, and that is what started the Trojan War. The Greeks after all, needed to reclaim Helen. But, I digress, and return to Hamlet. : Hamlet feels guilty for not mourning his father's death enough in public, and for not doing the Elizabethan deed of killing his father's killer. Elizabethan audiences would already hate Hamlet, and this soliloquy, another step towards the Modern Man, has Hamlet questioning the Elizabethan convention of killing the killer of his father, just as Fortinbras will attempt to do. : Hamlet contemplates suicide, but does not kill himself because there is no proof of the afterlife being positive or negative. : But wait, didn't he see his father on the battlements. Methinks Hamlet may be a little touched.....

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