The soliloquy opens in a complete mixture of prose. There is no obvious or logical rhythm, which is important since it reflects his agi

In the prior scenes, Hamlet is shown interacting with other individuals. Although one senses the sarcastic and melancholy tone in which Hamlet responds to others, the reasons for his bad temper are not quite clear. In the soliloquy, however, his painful emotions are unleashed. Hamlet opens the speech articulating the depth of his depression by saying "O, that this too too solid flesh would melt/ Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!" (I.ii.129-130), stressing his desire to evaporate into thin air to escape his reality. Since this cannot be, he wishes that God had not given a direct law forbidding suicide. Whether he is at a suicidal state of mind or not is questionable, but his unhappiness is certainly clear. His generalization of how "weary, stale, flat and unprofitable" (I.ii.133) the world seems to him culminates to the point where all his troubles intersect: "That it should come to this!" (I.ii.137). Everything before this statement serves as a prelude to it. What follows is an analysis of the emotional vortex that he is going through. His attempt to define his sadness leads him to anger. He praises his father's virtues and condemns Claudius for lacking them. He then conveys his aversion to his mother's sexual misconduct and her brief morning period over Hamlet's father. Here he ascertains that he did not even know the true nature of his own mother. He is therefore left with no one to trust, which is congruous to the suspicious mood throughout the play. It is obvious through this soliloquy that Hamlet is struggling with the conflict he feels between his state of emotional turmoil and the disapproval he feels towards his mother's behavior. In a tone of anger and disgust, he ac

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