Hamlet's First Soliloquy

        Hamlet’s soliloquy affects a tone of despair and woe. Hamlet contemplates his own death. Speaking metaphorically about his flesh melting, Hamlet wishes that suicide was not a sin. Hamlet has lost what he has to live for. The throne has been snatched from his grasp along with his mother in the same calculated swoop. He speaks metaphorically comparing about the Kingdom of Denmark being the Garden of Eden turn rank and decayed. Old King Hamlet and Claudius are as Hyperion to a satyr.

        Hamlet goes on to Question his mother’s loyalty to Old King Hamlet because of the short time period between his father’s death and her marriage to Claudius. “Frailty, thy name is woman!” Hamlet is losing respect for women and I believe this is a motif that is carried over into his relationship with Ophelia. Claudius pale in comparison to Hamlet’s notion of his father. He cannot at this point comprehend his mother’s reasoning. He states that even an animal would have mourned longer.  His view of their relationship is on the same level a incest. He is disgusted with her. Hamlet is internally conflicted, but chooses now to bite his tongue

I think that if Hamlet would have had more time to adjust, he would not be acting so overdramatically.  The soliloquy introduces the suicide motif that show the world is painful to live in, but, within the Christian belief that govern the play, if one commits suicide to end that pain, one damns oneself to eternal suffering in hell.