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The Soliloquy
O, that this [|too too] [|solid] flesh would melt **altogether too much,pun:SALLIED/SULLIED, attacked, dirty** Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fixed [|His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!] O God! God! How weary, stale, [|flat] and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! (**FOR SMAME)**Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an [|unweeded garden],THE KINGDOM That grows to seed; things rank and gross [|in naturePossess it merely]. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this, [|Hyperion] to a [|satyr]; so loving to my mother (GODLIKE, RADIANT AS THE SUN TO MAN AT HIS WORST) That he might not [|beteem] the winds of heaven(ALLOW) Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, (145) 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, (150) [|Like Niobe], all tears: -- why she, even she -- O, God! [|a beast, that wants discourse of reason], Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to [|Hercules]: within a month: (155) Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the [|flushing] in her [|galled eyes],(leave off or left behind) (redness, sore from weeping) She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such [|dexterity] to [|incestuous sheets!](double entendre:sexual dexterity, nimbleness) (taboo, forbidden by church for mother to marry husbands brother) It is not nor it cannot come to good: (160) [|But break, my heart]; for I must hold my tongue.

How it reveals Hamlet's Character

 * The first of Hamlet's soliloquys is used to explain why he is so melancholic at the court scene shown earlier.

Seem to me all the uses of this world!" - In this line, Hamlet basically explains that the world seems to him to be quite meaningless. He is, in fact, showing signs of being "emo".
 * " How weary, stale, [|flat] and unprofitable, (135)


 * "[|But break, my heart]; for I must hold my tongue." - In this line Hamlet is essentially saying that he won't do anything about what he thinks of his mother's relationship with the new king, his Uncle.


 * Basically this soliloquy displays Hamlet's virtue, and his reluctance to act to correct what he thinks is wrong. Hamlet appears to be quite depressed over the loss of his father and his mother's quick marriage to his uncle, which he sees as a bretrayal of his father. It might be important to consider that this depression is the result of him not being able to act or voice his opinion openly, rather than the actual settings. Also, Hamlet is revealed to be indecisive as he will not act as he wishes despite what he believes.