When "his father's spirit was in arms," it was not a time for the son to be with his love. ... "Sweets to the sweet farewell [Scattering flowers] I hop'd thou should'st have been my Hamlet's wife I thought thy bride-bed to have deck'd, sweet maid, And not to have strew'd thy grave." ...
His feigned madness permitted Hamlet to express these emotions freely towards Ophelia: "...Get thee to a nunnery, / farewell. ... In these soliloquies Hamlet ponders the question of suicide and what the ramifications of it are: To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether "tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. ...
