Firstly I have to say I prefer the Folio version of Hamlet for this soliloquy, because 'solid flesh would melt' sounds much more powerful than 'sallied flesh'. I believe the entire speech is very important as it gives us our first impressions of Hamlet, and we begin to understand how he really feels (because in soliloquies, the character is being truthful). I think this speech can be used to determine Hamlet's entire character- for example, he could come across as mainly angry, mainly distraught or mainly desparate, which are the three versions we saw on the DVDs today.
My favourite of the three films' interpretations is David Tennant's Hamlet... This is not just because I think he is an incredible actor, it's also because the way the director chose to portray Hamlet was the way I most believe Hamlet's character should be portrayed- Although confused and angry about his mother's choices to marry so early after becoming widowed, his main reason for feeling suicidal is that he is still griefstricken about his father's death. He also feels his father was a much better King than Claudius, 'no more like my father than I to Hercules'.
I think this version of the speech shows us that Hamlet is more vunerable than dangerous, which allows the audience to pity him throughout the play. Good old Davey T.
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