Act 2 Scene 2 Soliloquy Notes

- Hamlet is insulting himself when he calls himself a peasant slave
- Comparing himself to the player king
- Player king weeps for Hecuba though he has no real reason for it
-Hamlet cannot understand why the player king weeps so much for someone he does not know
- Asks himself what the player king would do if he had the motive that Hamlet has
- Decides the player king would have killed Claudius but says he is too scared to do so
- Admits that he is a coward and only acts like he is going to take revenge for his father
- Makes a plan to show a scene that he makes in front of Claudius and the family which compares to his fathers murder to see how Claudius reacts to find out if he is the true killer
- Realizes that the ghost could be the devil trying to damn him which is why he needs greater justification than what the ghost told him.

Marc Cavalier