"O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, .
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!.
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed.
His canon "gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!.
How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable.
Seem to me all the uses of this world!".
-Hamlet.
-Act I, Scene 2, page 16.
The topic of suicide is a controversial subject that many people choose to avoid, but Shakespeare approached the subject in his play Hamlet. I enjoyed reading how Shakespeare incorporated this subject into his play. He explores it mainly through the character of Hamlet. In the first four lines in the above passage, Hamlet wants to melt away, to disappear, or to exist no longer. He asks why God made suicide a sin because he does not want to cope with the grief of his father dying and his mother remarrying his uncle. The way Shakespeare conveys these feelings into the words of Hamlet are beautiful. He just does not say that I want to die, but uses eloquent words to allow the reader to visualize Hamlet's thoughts in saying how he wants his flesh to melt, thaw and change to dew. I feel Hamlet's strong feelings of pain when he asks why God had to make suicide a sin. Shakespeare's words give me a immense feeling of sorrow and pity for Hamlet because it must take a lot of pain and suffering for someone to wish to take his own life. That is not something I fell is right, but I can understand the reason why Hamlet wants to die. Hamlet also expresses that there is nothing left in this world for him to live for. This feelings are not only expressed by Shakespeare through Hamlet, but it I have seen it the world today. For example, in the movie What Dreams May Come the death of a woman's husband drives her to suicide because of the pain she feels, and she believes that there is nothing left for her to live for. She feels hollow and empty inside and decides the only way to end her pain and the feeling of emptiness is to take her own life.