Shakespeare uses the 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 characters within the play, characterized primarily by his conscious intention to "assume an old-fashioned disposition". While the audience is mystified by Hamlet's erratic moods and inconsistent behavior - the alternation between passive inaction, failure to act when he has the opportunity to avenge and kill Claudius while praying, and volatile linguistic attacks in Gertrude's chamber - the soliloquies provide coherence. They are intimate, private, confessional accounts in which Hamlet does not have to "act" as he does with the other characters. They therefore serve to distinguish the original Hamlet from the specious character he plays within the play itself. Similarly in The Avenger's Tragedy, Middleton attempts to separate Vindex from the role he adopts as a pimp. However, the consequences of these revelations of truth are divergent. While in The Avenger's Tragedy, Vindex is able to disconnect genuine feelings from necessary action and acts contrary to the emotions revealed in his parts, 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 they can decipher between the false impressions and the real Hamlet behind the disguise. The sober and measured dialogue between Hamlet and Claudius at court is juxtaposed with the passionate nature of the first soliloquy. Sentence structures in the G...... center of paper ...... dictations while the soliloquy offers confidential privacy, we would expect the soliloquy to be more suited to the characters' confession and therefore to the presentation of Hamlet that Shakespeare constructs in the soliloquy, he is a more convincing model of the real character. The comparison of dialogue and soliloquy in Shakespeare's Hamlet provides an alternative perspective on a potentially puzzling protagonist, whose erratic and mercurial behavior has prevented the audience from reaching definitive conclusions. Although the conditions of the soliloquy lend themselves to the protagonist speaking truthfully, this deduction can only be made by connecting the concerns Hamlet expresses in the soliloquy to the course of action he takes, while in a play so deeply riddled with false appearances and deliberate self-control , critics remain conflicted regarding the true nature of Hamlet himself.