p.832 #9

Hamlet’s soliloquy in (I.ii. 129-59) depicts him as suicidal and misogynistic. The image of his skin melting away adds to his grief he feels towards his father passing demonstrating his suicidal tendencies. The angrier Hamlet becomes through his speech, the more violent his words become: “…that everlasting had not fix’d his canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!” (I.ii. 131-32). He also uses different allusions including Niobe & Hercules. Hamlet’s misogyny is apparent when he releases his frustration about his mother and his uncle marrying right after his father died: “Frailty, thy name is woman!” (146). He believes that all women are weak and need a man to look after them. He loves his mother (maybe a little bit too much) and doesn’t want to her to remarry.