Hamlet The Confused

Hamlet believes he is truly alone during his soliloquy saying things that were very emotional to him things he would not want anyone to hear. "To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them." (III.i.56-60). Here Hamlet is honestly contemplating death or murder something had any else heard him might cause a stir and would definitely cause Claudius and Polonius to be more careful around him it would also throw his crazy label he has been using to confuse Claudius about the water with revenge talking its place making far harder to murder him. “To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause” (III.i.64-68).  Hamlet is referring to death as a dream in the sense that once you’re in your dream you don’t really have any control over it. A metaphor for he truly has no control over what he wanted to do at that moment the only reason he didn’t kill himself right there and then is because he saw Ophelia the one thing/person he enjoyed in life and he most likely didn’t want to saddened her. “Soft you now, The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons Be all my sins remember’d.” (III.i.88-90). If Hamlet had really wanted someone to hear him why would he silence himself when Ophelia showed up he could have continued it ignoring the fact she was there and could have made her tell Claudius and Polonius to spur another plot had it been one from the beginning. “When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life,” (III.i.76-77). Hamlet takes out a knife and moves it around very close to himself, while saying he could easily end his life with that knife. I don’t think that Hamlet lacks the intelligence to realize that if he took out a knife as a ploy because he believed someone was watching he could accidentally stab himself and end his life, no this was a man completely caught up in his emotions.

Hamlet’s emotions completely agree with what is being said he was filling fed up with life his dad got killed and he was the only one who seems to truly care, his mother was sleeping around with the Claudius who supposedly murdered his father, the love of his life Ophelia won’t even respond to any of the letter he has sent and she is completely ignoring him and if that wasn’t enough he has two people, in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern, who he dislikes constantly provoking him because Gertrude and Claudius told them to find out what’s wrong with Hamlet even though they know nothing about him. He’s lost he doesn’t know what to do in this situation, he can’t be blame for what thinking about death, if Claudius murdering his father and Ophelia arriving at the time he might honestly have killed himself, he was confused, anger and just fed up with everyone around him. 

RE ALEX T: 
I agree with the fact that the King had sent people to find stuff out what's wrong with Hamlet, but he has never truly spied on Hamlet even Rosencrantz and Guildenstern were indirectly asking him question instead of watching him from a far. The arrangement for Hamlet was to find out what was bothering Hamlet and it helped garnish nothing from it because he didn't really give us anything out of it other then hiding information he was giving Ophelia to protect herself. At this point, Claudius doesn't view Hamlet as an enemy even though, Hamlet does Claudius views Hamlet more as a son, in a weird Homer Simpson-Bart Simpson relationship, as he taunted him earlier on by calling him unmanly and worrying about him by sending Guildenstern and Rosencrantz for him, the Beavis and Butt-head of Hamlet, who think they knows what they are doing but clearly have no clue. Hamlet seemed to be telling himself to quite down before Ophelia hears all of this and runs to her father Polonius who she gave all the love letters to, letters he poured his heart into so he should feel a bit betrayed and be at odds with her hecan't fully trust her or anyone other than Horatio as you said. Hamlet had a lot of steam building up from all the things that had happened over the time period of the book and he let it all out, thankfully it didn't result in him committing suicide.