What is Hamlets tone in his soliloquies?

Answer 1

They are all different:

"Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt." is disgusted, angry and incoherent. It is filled with explosions of anger which disrupt his flow of thought: "Fie on't! O, fie!", "Frailty, thy name is woman!", "Oh, God, a beast that wants discourse of reason would have mourned longer!"

"Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I" starts out thoughtful and puzzled, but around the line "Am I a coward?" Hamlet becomes more and more angry with himself and Claudius until he roars out his line "O vengeance!" And then the mood changes again, as he begins to laugh at himself. Finally, it takes a serious but purposeful tone on the line "About, my brains!"

"To be or not to be" is philosophical and emotionless. Hamlet is looking at humanity from the outside, not at his own problems.

"Now is the very witching hour of night" is brutal, direct and cruel.

"How all occasions do inform against me" wavers between his thoughtful contemplation of Fortinbras's army and his bitter self-recrimination for his own inaction.