8:2 oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt...

"Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt,thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self slaughter!" Strong words. 

Hamlet begins his first soliloquy with these words, enlightening the audience to just how upset he is. He has right to be upset as well: his beloved father is dead, Denmark has lost a great king, and his mother has remarried- to his late father's brother. Who wouldn't be upset?

Hamlet goes on to describe the world as useless and compares it to an unweeded garden. A world where the negatives and ugliness overpower the beauty and worth. He cannot believe the brevity since his father's passing, and the apathy everyone else seems to feel about the matter. Hamlet knows his father was a great king and a wonderful husband. The more his parents were together, the more they wanted to be together. Yet here his mother is  married to her brother-in-law, when her funeral shoes had not even worn. The tears on her face were not yet dried. Hamlet curses women, giving offence to them more than calling them weak: "Frailty- thy name is woman!" He says that not only are women weak, but they are the epitome of weakness. He says that an animal- a common beast, would have mourned longer for its mate than his mother did for Old Hamlet. Hamlet swears none of this is good, and no good could or will come of it all. However. Though it breaks his heart, he has to remain quiet.