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Act I

Act I . Hamlet ’ s Soliloquy . Act I Soliloquy .

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Act I

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  1. Act I Hamlet’s Soliloquy

  2. Act I Soliloquy “O, that this too too sullied flesh would meltThaw and resolve itself into a dew!Or that the Everlasting had not fix'dHis canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable,Seem to me all the uses of this world!” (133-138) • Contemplates suicide • “Everlasting” God • Sin to commit suicide • Hamlet’s outlook on the world • Doesn’t want to live and deal with this

  3. Act I Soliloquy “Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden,That grows to seed; things rank and gross in naturePossess it merely. That it should come to this!” (139-141). • Well-tended garden symbolized harmony and normalcy • Accepts “weeds” as part of the garden • They have grown out of control

  4. Act I Soliloquy “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 motherThat he might not beteem the winds of heavenVisit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth!”(142-146) • Quickness of the marriage • Remembers how great a king his father was and how much he loved his mom

  5. Act I Soliloquy “Must I remember? why, she would hang on him,As if increase of appetite had grownBy 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 oldWith which she follow'd my poor father's body,Like Niobe, all tears:--why she, even she—” (147-153) • Remembers how much Gertrude loved Old Hamlet • Disgusts him how quickly she remarries • Funeral shoes became wedding shoes (metaphor) • Allusion to Niobe • Cried so much for children turned into stone which water flowed from

  6. Act I Soliloquy “O, God! a beast, that wants discourse of reason,Would have mourn'd longer--married with my uncle,My father's brother, but no more like my fatherThan I to Hercules: within a month:Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tearsHad left the flushing in her galled eyes,She married. O, most wicked speed, to postWith such dexterity to incestuous sheets!”(154-161) • A beast that cannot speak would have mourned longer • Disgusted that she married his brother • Does not accept Claudius as his father • Married before tears even dried • Feels that it is incestuous

  7. Act I Soliloquy “It is not nor it cannot come to good:But break, my heart; for I must hold my tongue” (162-164) • Foreshadowing • Cannot say anything • Disrespect • Breaks his heart

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