One of the ways sociologists get a sense of who people are (i. e. their identities) is by conducting life history interviews. In a life history, sociologists get access to otherwise inaccessible information such as a person's past, their interpretations of important historical events and situations, and changes in the way they think and feel about their identities over time. In a life history, sociologists can also get some idea of how a person's sense of self was shaped through socialization over the life course.

Hamlet's fourth soliloquy is probably his most famous one - "to be or not to be."it is rather different from his previous soliloquies because now he is contemplating something that didn't come up before - suicide. he is thinking whether it is worth it to fight to find his father's murderer when in the end all of them are going to die, so why not die sooner than later. he is contemplating if he should go on fighting or just kill himself and end it all, which is why this soliloquy in particular is rather depressing, hesitant, and gives a deeper insight into hamlet's madness.