Hamlet's Soliloquies Reveal His Personality

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With the quote, "O, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst {self-slaughter!} (I, ii, 133-136)," Hamlet is speculating suicide as an end to his sorrow; however, Hamlet goes on to say that "the Everlasting" is against "self-slaughter," or suicide, which would result in Hamlet's not going to Heaven after death...
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"'Tis an unweeded garden/That grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature/Possess it merely (I, ii, 139-141)." Amanda Mabillard explains, "Although Hamlet accepts weeds as a natural part of the garden (and more generally a natural part of life), he feels that the weeds have grown out of control and now possess nature entirely ("About: Shakespeare")...
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