Hamlet soliloquy 1

Hamlet soliloquy 1

1. Hamlet grieves for his fathers death

2. Suicide

3. Refers to the world as an "unweeded garden" in which rank and gross things grow in abundance

   • Saddened by his fathers death yet the larger cause of Hamlets misery is Queen Gertrude's disloyal marriage to his uncle.
     • Hamlet mourns that even "a beast would have mourned a little longer" Hamlet considers the marriage of his mother an incestuous affair.
     • This shows Hamlets deep affection for his beloved father. It shows us that Old Hamlet was a loving husband and respected father.
       • It enlightens the fact in the haste in which Gertrude decides to marry with the dead kings brother, without mourning for a respectable period of time.

4. Hamlet bemoans the fact he cannot commit suicide. He wishes that his physical self might cease to exist " O, that this too too solid flesh wound melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew !"