Suicide_In_Shakespeare

Suicide In Shakespeare “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! God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!” -Hamlet -Act I, Scene 2, page 16 The topic of suicide is a controversial subject that many people choose to avoid, but Shakespeare approached the subject in his play Hamlet. I enjoyed reading how Shakespeare incorporated this subject into his play. He explores it mainly through the character of Hamlet. In the first four lines in the above passage, Hamlet wants to melt away, to disappear, or to exist no longer. He asks why God made suicide a sin because he does not want to cope with the grief of his father dying and his mother remarrying his uncle. The way Shakespeare conveys these feelings into the words of Hamlet are beautiful. He just does not say that I want to die, but uses eloquent words to allow the reader to visualize Hamlet’s thoughts in saying how he wants his flesh to melt, thaw and change to dew. I feel Hamlet’s strong feelings of pain hamlet, shakespeare, suicide, pain, subject, god, because, world, words, through, take, melt, feelings, feeling, wish, way, understand, thaw, sin, play, people, own, nothing, live, life, left, hamlet’s, flesh, felt, feels, expresses, emptiness, die, dew, death