and that death is common, offers philosophy, but Hamlet plays sorrow, his tone of disapproval is evident in Act 1 Scene 2, "Ay, madam, it is common."
             Hamlet's passionate first soliloquy provides a striking contrast to the artificial dialogue that he must exchange with Claudius. The soliloquy is to reveal to the audience the reasons for his despair. The duplication of "too" intensifies Hamlet's feelings of regret. "Unweeded garden/That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature/Possess it merely." We see a lot of sickness imageries used.
             Hamlet explains that, without exception Denmark is a well-tended garden, which was symbolic of harmony and normalcy, although he accepts weeds as a natural part of the garden, and more generally a general part of life, he feels that the weeds have grown out of control and now possess nature entirely. Hamlet's speech is saturated with suggestions of rot and corruption, as seen in the basic usage of words like "rank" and "gross", and in the metaphor associating the world with an "unweeded garden"
             The nature of his grief is soon exposed, as we have learnt that his mother, Gertrude, has married her own brother-in-law, only two months after the death of Hamlet's father, believing that her love for Hamlet father's was a pretense to satisfy her own lust and greed. "O God! A beast, that wants discourse of reason would have mourn'd longer." Hamlet believes that even a creature incapable of speech would have mourned longer, than Gertrude mourned for Hamlet's father. Hamlet's experience with man has made him cynical.
             "Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears/Had left the flushing in her galled eyes." She cried "unrighteous tears" because the sorrow she expressed was insincere. "Flushing" refers to the redness in Gertrude's eyes from cryi...