Question

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!
But two months dead!—nay, not so much, not two:
So excellent a king; that was, to this,
Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother,
That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!
Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on: and yet, within a month,—
Let me not think on’t,—Frailty, thy name is woman!—
A little month; or ere those shoes were old
With which she followed my poor father’s body
Like Niobe, all tears;—why she, even she,—
O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason,
Would have mourn’d longer,—married with mine uncle,
My father’s brother; but no more like my father
Than I to Hercules: within a month;
Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
She married:— O, most wicked speed, to post
With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
It is not, nor it cannot come to good;
But break my heart,—for I must hold my tongue.

Answer 1

This is Hamlet´s quotation for the first important soliloquy, in Act I, scene ii. focusing on complex issues emerging from love, death, and betrayal, filling the audience´s answers on these daunted issues, with ambiguity, insecurity, doubt and fear.

Step-by-step explanation:

These lines come after Claudius and Gertrude´s scene in court, where Hamlet is requested to give up hisplans to study at Wittenberg and stay in Denmark, having Hamlet to think about killing himself, as an option, for the first time: "...solid flesh would “melt,” and “self-slaughter” would not be a sin forbidden by God and religion, expressing his sorrow about the world as: “weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable.” Hamlet describes the great pain caused by his mother’s hastened marriage to Claudius: "But two months dead!—nay, not so much, not two:" comparing Claudius to his father: “so excellent a king” with Claudius as a: “satyr”. His mother´s marriage is described with appellant topics in the play such as misogyny lamenting: “Frailty, thy name is woman”, and deceit: “to post with such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”. Although Hamlet loves his mother, staying behind but also hates her for getting married so soon.