Choose one of the listed soliloquies. Discuss how the soliloquy expresses and develops the concepts of the Elizabethan Order and/or the emerging mythos & ethos of Existentialism, Nihilism, and the autonomous individual.
Instructions:
Address the question through a detailed analysis and interpretation of one of the following soliloquies:
- Act I, Scene 5 ll. 15 - 33
- Act I, Scene 5, ll. 47-61
- Act 5, Scene 5, ll 22-30
Illustrate your analysis with carefully selected and explained reference to the play and specific quotations. Take care to cite Act, Scene, and Line numbers in parentheses and to indicate line divisions, as appropriate, with slashes.'
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