In Hamlet's first soliloquy (1.2), he expresses his despair due to his mother's hasty remarriage after the death of his father. ... He leaps from the single example of his mother's impulsive behaviour and condemns all women for all time. ... Hamlet reveals his own frailty when he admits that his despair has driven him to thoughts of suicide and that he would kill himself if it were not a violation of canon law. ... Further, we learn that his father's death and his mother's hasty remarriage have turned his world into "an unweeded garden / That grows to seed; things rank...

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• Grade Level: High School

My relatives, especially my grandfather would always criticize me for possessing things that they had never seen before. There was once my grandfather noticed that I was playing with my "gameboy", he went and told my father not to spend on anything that would "spoil" me. ... My mother eventually realized that it was quite shameful for me to use her as a translator whenever my relatives and grandparents wanted to tell me something. ... I heard some of my Chinese friends say that I could get killed if I couldn't speak Mandarin in China. ...

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• Grade Level: High School