In the book Hamlet, there are many brilliant and unordinary speeches, they all relate and if you analyze them deep enough you will see how they all have a relationship. Most of these speeches have a strong theme or point. There were so many speeches and quotes with great meaning and extraordinary wording, for every speech or quote there is always a hidden message or point Hamlet, or some of the other actors are trying to make. Hamlet is the main speech giver and always contemplates himself during his quotes or speeches. He was much undecided and was always changing his mind during his speeches. He was a troubled man during this time and it showed in the way he acted in the situations he was in, and also by what he would say, and how he would say things. The first speech I choose was from, (“Act I, scene ii”). In this speech Hamlet speaks these lines to Claudius and Gertrude after enduring the unpleasant scene at the court. Hamlet was then asked by his mother and stepfather not to return to his studies in England. They wanted him to remain in Denmark, presumably against his wishes. This I believe was all Claudius doings. Here, in this scene Hamlet thinks for the first time about suicide. When he talks about desiring his flesh to melt and wishing God had not made killing himself a sin. Hamlet felt so strongly that, suicide seemed like a good alternative to life in a hurtful world. He ends up saying he must not do such a thing because it is forbidden for him to do such a thing because of his religion. After he talks about suicide, Hamlet then goes on to describe the causes of all of his pain, and disgust. He makes it clear that his highly disapproves his mother marriage to Claudius. He does not understand how they could be married so fast, or why his mother would want to marry Claudius, and with such hast, that was the question he wanted answered. In the speech Hamlet says “Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on: and yet, within a month, Let me not think on’t, Frailty, thy name is woman!.” In this line it shows that he was confused about his mother’s decisions and thought the marriage happened way to fast. He then goes on to compare Claudius to his father, he says he is not like his father and never will be. At the end of this speech he says this, “Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married: O, most wicked speed, to post, With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good; But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue.” These ending lines of the speech highlight his true feelings of both Claudius and Gertrude. His disapproval and confuse truly starts to show. The second speech I chose to analyze was from, (Act I, scene iii). This speech said by Polonius. He was saying good bye to his son Laertes before he went off to France. In the speech Polonius was giving Laertes a list of instructions about how to behave before he sends him on his way. Polonius says, “Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.” This was only some advice that he gave to his son. He seemed wise and gave wise advice. During the speech the list of quite normal fatherly advice shows that Laetres and his father and a regular bond. It also shows that Polonius loves and cares for his son and wants him to do the best he possibly can. This whole speech just showed us the bond between father and son. These two speeches share a relationship; they both show the effects a father can have on his son. In the first speech were Hamlet is thinking about suicide because, he is so upset and doesn’t want to deal with the pains of life anymore. This speech shows how a father’s death can affect a son. If Hamlets father would not have died he would not have gone mad, and would have lived a normal and almost painless life, but with the death of his father that all became very complicated. With his father’s death Hamlet ends up losing respect for his mother in the process because of her quick marriage to his uncle. Things defiantly would have been much different in Hamlets life if his Father was not murdered. In the second speech we see a normal relationship between a father and son. During this speech Laertes had a normal and good life, no conflict and no dismay. By the end of this book both of these sons are fatherless. Both sons also act the same on how they act after their fathers die. In the beginning of the book before Hamlet kills Polonius, Laertes is just a normal guy like Hamlet was before the death of his father. They both end up being insane, and they both end up getting there revenge in the end. So the theme in which these two speeches relate would be one speech shows us how a normal fatherly bond was and how it could have been for Hamlet. The other speech shows us the affects of the father not being in the son’s life. So in the end deaths of fathers will change a person, and did change these two characters lives forever.