ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -“O, that this too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew…”(page 31), in this soliloquy, its like he’s saying that he wants to melt inside earth like water into the ground. Hamlet expresses here his feelings towards his mother marrying his uncle, two months after the death of his father.

Detailed explanation-2: -HAMLET: O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter!

Detailed explanation-3: -RALPH: Hamlet clearly idolizes his father, he compares him to a Greek god, and he opposes him directly to his uncle Claudius, whom he compares to a satyr, which is a half-man, half-goat creature from classical mythology. SARAH: From the way Hamlet describes them, his parents had been completely devoted to each other.