has
been deeply traumatized by the death of his father and the fact that his mother, , has hastily
remarried , his wicked uncle. Indeed,is so traumatized by recent events that he wishes he could
commit suicide, that "[T]his too, too sullied flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself
into a dew." But, as he then goes to say, killing himself would go against Christian
teaching, which regards suicide as a sin. As Hamlet still prides himself on being a Christian
prince, he reluctantly adheres to the Church's strictures against
"self-slaughter."
But this only torments...
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