Why Is Hamlet's First Soliloquy
Act I
DECAY AND CORRUPTION. (Hamlet) “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!/or that the everlasting had not fixed /His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! Oh God, God,/How weary,stale, flat, and unprofitable /seem to me all the uses of this world!” (1,2,Lines 129-134.)
Clearly this soliloquy shows how hamlets is distressed . His Desire for his “ flesh” to “melt” and dissolve into “dew” registers his grief over the death of his father and his mother’s remarriage to his uncle. His thoughts here are suicidal and show some mental and emotional instability . In previous context we are informed that Hamlet had been in a “ melancholy” mood. This shows just how greatly this arrangement ,with his uncle and mother , have affected him. In later text Hamlet repeatedly states how his mother was so weak that within “a month” she had fallen for his father’s brother. Hamlets constant sruggle over how to deal with his pain creates for the whole drama of the play. To be seen in later acts. …show more content…
He informs his friends that he will put on an “ antic disposition”. Basically hamlet Is going to act like a madman. As the play progresses and hamlet puts on his “act” the audience begins to questions hamlets sanity as a whole. Is this really an act? Has he become to drowned in his emotions that he has lost himself? A constant
DECAY AND CORRUPTION. (Hamlet) “O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!/or that the everlasting had not fixed /His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! Oh God, God,/How weary,stale, flat, and unprofitable /seem to me all the uses of this world!” (1,2,Lines 129-134.)
Clearly this soliloquy shows how hamlets is distressed . His Desire for his “ flesh” to “melt” and dissolve into “dew” registers his grief over the death of his father and his mother’s remarriage to his uncle. His thoughts here are suicidal and show some mental and emotional instability . In previous context we are informed that Hamlet had been in a “ melancholy” mood. This shows just how greatly this arrangement ,with his uncle and mother , have affected him. In later text Hamlet repeatedly states how his mother was so weak that within “a month” she had fallen for his father’s brother. Hamlets constant sruggle over how to deal with his pain creates for the whole drama of the play. To be seen in later acts. …show more content…
He informs his friends that he will put on an “ antic disposition”. Basically hamlet Is going to act like a madman. As the play progresses and hamlet puts on his “act” the audience begins to questions hamlets sanity as a whole. Is this really an act? Has he become to drowned in his emotions that he has lost himself? A constant