Response Paper: Hamlet

            I think Hamlet acts in a very noble way in the first soliloquy (Shakespeare I. ii. 129 -159). Instead of jumping to a conclusion, and acting in an immature way. He reasonably thinks about his current problems silently in his head. This way he can make a more appropriate decision when choosing a solution to his problems.
             I will now give my thoughts on the soliloquy in chronological order. First he reasons through the option that his father may have committed suicide, when he says, "His law 'gainst self-slaughter" (I. ii. 132). In this statement, I think Hamlet was considering the possibility that his father could have committed suicide, even though his father believed in a law against suicide. Hamlet immediately dismissed that thought when he says, "Fie on't! O fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Process it completely. – That it should come to this" (I. ii. 135 -137). Which, in my opinion, Hamlet is saying to himself, this is can't be true! There isn't any evidence to prove that he did commit suicide. So Hamlet feels he must think about it more completely, before he comes to a final thought about his father's death. Hamlet goes on to explain how his mother married his uncle (Hamlets Dads brother), after only a month had passed since his father had died. He reasons through his mothers action in his head by thinking, "Let me think not on't! --- Frailty, thy name is woman" (I. ii. 146 – 147). This is the only un-noble behavioral thing Hamlet has reasoned in this whole soliloquy. I think this thought is a little immature. He bases his mother's rapid remarriage on the terms that women are weak and cannot live alone. Although I am not familiar at all with this time period, and I cannot say for sure why she married her old husband's brother within a month after he had died, I would assume it...

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