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Hamlet's Response To Suicide

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This passage, Hamlet expresses his extreme irritation that he deeply wounded by the death of his father, and he also demonstrates that how badly he feels about the new marriage of his mother with his own uncle. Earlier, the king and queen (His mother & his uncle) were asking him not to return to Witenberg for his education but to stay in Denmark, and it was against his wishes. Here, he speaks precisely about suicide. He desires his flesh to melt and whishing that God had not made a sin for suicide. He also says that the suicide seems like a desirable alternative to life in a painful world. However, Hamlet senses that the option of suicide is not the right decision for him because it is forbidden by religion. For example, within the Christian

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