soliloquiy 1

• in Hamlet's first soliloquy, he refers to the world as an ‘unweeded garden,’ in which rank and gross things grow in abundance. He bemoans the fact that he cannot commit suicide and explains in lines 335-336 that "self-slaughter" is not an option because it is forbidden by God. In the first two lines of the soliloquy, he wishes that his physical self might cease to exist on its own without requiring him to commit a mortal sin:

  “O that this too too solid flesh would melt,Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!"
• Though saddened by his father’s death, the larger cause of Prince Hamlet’s misery is Queen Gertrude’s disloyal marriage to his uncle. She announces the new marriage when barely a month has passed since his biological father's death. Hamlet mourns that even "a beast would have mourned a little longer." Additionally, he considers this marriage to be an incestuous affair since his mother is marrying her dead husband's brother.
• This soliloquy shows Hamlet’s deep affection for the late King Hamlet. It also paints the dead king as a loving husband and a respected father and further serves to demonstrate to the audience the hasty nature of Queen Gertrude's second marriage, which she announces without mourning for a respectable period of time.

  Hamlet scorns his mother, but accuses her of weakness rather than malice with the line:

  “Frailty, thy name is woman!”

  He concludes the soliloquy by voicing his frustration that he must keep his objections to himself.
• took place in act 1 scene 2
• O, sullied flesh would melt
• hamlet wants to take his own life; world is a bad place; mother did not grieve for long enough and married too quickly