Hamlet's "eloquent praise of the earth, sky, and man, followed immediately by intense world-weariness and disaffection from the human predicament of being reduced to dust."3 Essentially, all of life, and all that was good and beautiful in life (e.g. the garden), is tainted. ... What is greater than Hamlet's loss of belief of integrity in the world his is loss of love for the life he once had and the people he knew/knows. ...

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