“Monday March 31, 2009”

The way Id like to start off my first assignment is by talking about quotes that seemed relavent and that stood out to me one was in act I, scene 2 on pgs (129–158).

“O that this too too solid flesh would melt,Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!
Fie on’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden,That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead! nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr; so loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth! Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him 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 followed my poor father’s body Like Niobe, all tears; why she, even she, O God! a beast that wants discourse of reason,Would have mourn’d longer, married with mine uncle, My father’s brother; but no more like my father Than I to Hercules: within a month; Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, 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,—for I must hold my tongue.”
Hamlet say’s this after the fact of going thru the the terrble scene at Claudius and Gertrude’s court, then his mother and stepfather asked him not to come back to Wittenberg but to stay in Denmark, and Hamlet really didnt want to do it. This is when Hamlet thinks about suicide (desiring his flesh to “melt,” and wishing that God had not made “self-slaughter” a sin), saying that the world is “weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable.” This meant that he no longer wanted to live but he wanted to commit suicide , this was the only thing he thought could relieve his feelings and to get away from the life in that painful world/society that he lived in. But Hamlet thinks also thinks that suicide is not really and option for him because of his religious beliefs. Hamlet then starts to describe the causes of his pain, espeacially the fact that his mother married to Claudius. He describes this hateful feelings towards their marriage. Than He compares Claudius to his father (his father was “so excellent a king” while Claudius is a bestial “satyr”). Hamlet then talks about the description of their marriage, he says “Frailty, thy name is woman”; incest, commenting that his mother moved “with such dexterity to incestuous sheets”; and the ominous omen the marriage represents for Denmark, that “it is not nor it cannot come to good.”So his mom really commited incest and he new it was’nt to fond of it either. This is what I got out of act 1 scene 2 .