Question

Read the excerpt from Hamlet, Act I, Scene ii. Hamlet: O! that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Fie on ’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! By evaluating the dramatic conventions in the excerpt, the reader can conclude that Hamlet will

Answer 1

It is an excerpt from Hamlet's first soliloquy in the play. The scene is Hamlet's first encounter with suicidal thoughts in which he condemns the world being weary, stale and unprofitable. But he cannot commit a suicide because religion forbids it. The remaining part of this soliloquy demonstrates Hamlet's agony because of the consequences related to his mother's fate and father's death. Therefore, the excerpt shows that the story will end tragically and it will not be a happy end.

Answer 2

Hamlet will become a tragic hero and the story will have an unhappy ending.
What he is saying in the excerpt above is basically that he wants to die; he doesn't really see a point in living in this horrible world, when we are all doomed to suffer and then die in the end. So he is contemplating suicide to speed up the process, which is obviously a tragic and negative feeling to express. Thus the story won't have a happy ending by any means.