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! 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!

But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two:

So excellent a king; that was, to this,

Hyperion to 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 follow'd 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

Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears

Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,

(Act II, Scene II, lines 129-159)

One of the causes of Hamlet's eagerness to vanish form the world is his awareness of the imperfection of earthly life, and the realization that justice does not rule the world. This imperfection, or corruption is a major theme in the play. To achieve a perfect illustration of the world's corrupted nature, Shakespeare relies on metaphors.

My father's brother but no more like my father

That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature

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Approximate Word count = 1654
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)