Hamlet - Quotes on his internal conflict?

Hey all,
Getting very bogged down in Hamlet for a Shakespeare essay at the moment, and was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of a couple of good quotes that would support points on his internal conflict.
Unfortunately I know my other text much better so my Hamlet section needs some padding :biggrin:

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silence

mm, perhaps II.ii.... the soliloquy at the end is in verse, unlike all previous dialogue of his in the scene which is in prose. sorry it's not so much a quotation, but it could be worth talking about that. linguistically, you could say that things like 'what's hecuba to him, or he to hecuba' in the soliloquy are arranged as a chiasmus, showing two sort of sides to something, like the mind of hamlet himself? that's debatable though. it's worth looking at the rhetorical questions he asks in it.. also, 'prompted to my revenge by heaven and hell'.. they are two opposite but similar forces and images. we also see 'heaven' and 'hell' juxtaposed just after he's encountered the ghost in I.v.

also, there's a famous one somewhere.. III.i. 'to be or not to be' in the soliloquy. a few lines in, there's the 'to die: to sleep; no more....' and he repeats the 'to die, to sleep; another few lines down but going on to say 'perchance to dream'. the arrangement of words is very interesting; chiastic in some parts again. the way in which imagery of sleep and death are combined is great. and yet again, after this soliloquy, we see a switch; from verse to prose. these switches serve as external actions complementary of internal differences. it's also interesting to consider that such switches are only noticeable to the audience, as his soliloquies aren't wintnessed by any characters.. a bit of dramatic irony there

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silence

also the final paragraph on part 6 in eliot's essay here - http://www.bartleby.com/200/sw9.html - is quite interesting regarding the verse/prose thing i was talking about.