Hamlet's Monologue: Women And The World

I found Hamlet’s monologue (lines 129-159) interesting. The lines that captured my attention were “Fie on’t! Ah fie! ‘Tis an unweeded garden,/That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature/Possess it merely. That it should come to this!” I like how these lines present the way experiences shape people’s view of the world. Hamlet endures this hardship of coming home from college and discovering that his father has died. To make it worse, he learns that his uncle, his father’s brother, has married his mother. This monologue demonstrates the effect this has on Hamlet and his view of women and the world. As a result of all that’s occurred, Hamlet views women as frail creatures who lack emotional attachment and believes that only immoral people