Hamlet is obviously experiencing grief and despair right from the beginning of the play, with the death of his father and his uncle's seizure of the throne and hasty marriage to Hamlet's mother. We can observe his great grief bordering on irrational suicidal tendencies as early as Act II Sc II, where he gives his first soliloquy. He cries:

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! (1.2.129-132)

Hamlet wants his flesh to dissolve into a dew, and wishes that God had not forbade suicides from going to heaven. This is also the first glimpse of another recurring theme in the play, that of Hamlet's obsession with the afterlife. This is one of the reasons that the ghost of his father has such an effect on him, which is a trigger for all the subsequent events in

Hamlet: For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog,

The next passage of interest is in Act II Sc II, when Claudius says to Rozencrantz and Guildenstern:

The next supporting scene is Act III Sc I. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are reporting back to the King.

Hamlet: Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world

And there assume some other horrible form,

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