-The speaker is hamlet again. The context within the play is yet another character development. -The main point of his speech is that he can't seem to take a task to its end, when others are able to do so. The development is shows a change in Hamlets thoughts. He is now fully concentrated on killing the king. This thought is purged along by the fact of what Fortinbras is doing. He is taking his …showed first 75 words of 402 total…

…showed last 75 words of 402 total…in a straw When honour's at the stake." How do I stand then, with a murdered father and an evil mother, thost very things which give me my reasons, to let it all sleep? While, shame on me, I see the death of 20000 men for nothing but a fake fame, although the reason is not good enough for their death. From this time on, my thoughts will be bloody, or let them be worth nothing.