“That this too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d / His canon ‘gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!/Tis an unweeded garden That grows a seed.Things rank and gross in nature Posses it merely. That it should come to this but two mounths dead." (Act 1 sc. 2)
At this early point in the text it is clear that Hamlet is weighing the benefits versus the ending his own life, but also that he recognizes that suicide is a crime in God’s eyes and could thus make his afterlife worse than his present situation. Hamlet moans over his father's murder, and is angry , and confused. The memorys consently torture him inside. Hamlet sees life as an unweeded garden that grows a seed. life is a mess of confusion, and danger, and the seed is stuck in it.Why is sucide so easy to accomplish? Why dose god Leave that temtation in front of him. In the fact of his father’s murder, Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death, and over the course of the play he considers death from a great many perspectives. He contiues to observe death, like the skulls in the grave yard in Act 5, and explains outlook on the subject.
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