Hamlet's Soliloquy: O that this too too solid flesh would melt
from Hamlet
Written by William Shakespeare
Hamlet expresses his profound grief and suicidal ideation following the death of his father and the hasty remarriage of his mother to his uncle. He struggles with feelings of betrayal and disgust at the corruption he perceives in the world and his own family.
HAMLET: O that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
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, ah fie! 'Tis an unweeded garden
That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
Possess it merely.
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