Hamlet Essay misc
To die, would be to abandon this garden suffocated by weeds. To take one's life, is to alleviate turmoil from the heart. Although extremely tempting, Hamlet cannot, therefore will not commit suicide. For he believes God "had... fixed / his canon 'gainst self-slaughter!" (line 131-132 p.166). With this in his mind he drags his burden deeper and deeper into a pit of agony. Inflicted upon him were the excruciatingly painful blows of his father's death and the incestuous marriage of his mother and uncle. Hamlet held his father with high esteem calling him an excellent king and Hyperion. He resents his "more than kin, and less than kind" (line 65 p.165) stepfather, exclaiming, "So excellent a king, that was, to this! / Hyperion to a satyr" (line 139-140 p. 166). He not only shows resentment towards his uncle, Claudius, but is also beset with anguish over his mother's hasty marriage, crying out, "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" (line 166-169 p.167). Then, the spirit of King Hamlet visits Elsinor to reveal to his son, "the serpent that did sting thy father's life now wears his crown." (lines 3
The spirit asks, "If thou didst ever the dear father love - revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. His cowardly reluctance is due to ethical considerations. This is evident in his third soliloquy, saying, "To be or not to be: that is the question:. He took my father grossly, full of bread; with all his crimes broad blown, as flush as May:. or about some act that has no relish of salvation in't;. "I'll tent him to the quick: if he but blench, I know my course, . Hamlet was the fallen hero that waited to long.
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