This reality of imperfect insights into 'corrupt' motives suggests that a person in a position of power has the means to initiate the corruption of otherwise resolute morals. ... The establishing line articulates Hamlet's moral dilemma between his longing for death and adhering to medieval religious sanctions against suicide, "O that this too too solid flesh would melt", expressing the persona's intense disillusionment with medieval contextual values, such as the sanctity of life and death. ... " Juxtaposition between the persona's motives of suicide a...

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