THE MONOLUGUE from ACT III SCENE I
The monologue is from act III (the third act is always important in Shakespeare’s plays) scene I.
It is not really a monologue, but a soliloquy and this gives the idea of the protagonist’s loneliness: Hamlet speak with himself because he is alone.
It is set in a room in the castle; it is inside therefore suggest the idea of something of intimate and private. Hamlet is talking to him-self; he’s thinking about the situation. The audience has a direct access to Hamlet’s most intimate thoughts.
He debates suicide: he is thinking to take a decision to live or to put an end into his life (to commit suicide).
Shakespeare used many hiperboles (life is saw by a metaphorical way), to make the audience almost imagine the pain (metaphors are used to express the difficulties of life) and to make his point lifelike..
Hamlet express his despair through throughts of suicide, suggesting that suicide is an easy way to end life’s conflicts.
In addition, he asks himself why we have to bear the “whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law’s delay” etc.
Despite that, Hamlet thinks that the death is a long sleep and when you sleep you can dream and a dream could also turn into a nightmare.
He concludes that the fear of an unknown afterlife is what keep us living. This is Hamlet answer.