Shakespeare uses soliloquy as a dramatic tool to reveal the man behind the disguise. The true nature of the protagonist, Hamlet, is riddled with false appearances and deliberate attempts to deceive the play's characters, characterized primarily by his conscious intention to "enact an ancient arrangement." As the audience is disoriented by Hamlet's erratic moods and inconsistent behavior - alternating between passive inaction, failure to act when given the opportunity to avenge, and killing Claudius while he prays, and the volatile linguistic attacks in Gertrude’s room – the soliloquies ensure coherence. These are intimate, private, confessional stories in which Hamlet does not have to “act” as he does with other characters. They therefore serve to distinguish the original Hamlet from the specious character he plays in the play itself. Similarly, in The Revenger's Tragedy, Middleton attempts to separate Vindication from the role he adopts as a flatterer. However, the consequences of these revelations of truth are divergent. Whereas in The Revenger's Tragedy Vindication is able to disconnect genuine feelings from necessary action and acts contrary to the emotions revealed in his asides, Hamlet's soliloquies indicate his course of action. The reluctance to act that Hamlet expresses in his soliloquies results in his ineffectiveness in avenging his father's death. Throughout the play, Shakespeare's use of soliloquies provides commentary and insight to the audience so that they can decipher between the false impressions and the real Hamlet behind the disguise. The restrained and measured dialogue between Hamlet and Claudius at court is juxtaposed with the passionate nature of the first monologue. Ground sentence structures...... middle of paper ......ctations While the soliloquy offers confidential intimacy, one might expect the soliloquy to be better suited to character confession and therefore to the presentation of Hamlet that Shakespeare constructs in soliloquy, is a more convincing model of the real character. The comparison between dialogue and soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet offers an alternative perspective on a potentially perplexed protagonist, whose erratic and changing behavior prevented the audience from drawing definitive conclusions. Even though the conditions of the soliloquy lend themselves to the protagonist speaking honestly, this inference can only be made by relating the concerns Hamlet expresses in the soliloquy to the course of action he undertakes, whereas in a play if deeply riddled with false appearances and deliberate restraint. , critics remain conflicted about the true nature of Hamlet himself.