... 's nihilistic, but humanist biased, perspective. The establishing line articulates Hamlet's moral dilemma between his longing for death and adhering to medieval religious sanctions against suicide, "O that this too too solid flesh would melt", expressing the persona's intense disillusionment with medieval contextual values, such as the sanctity of life and death. This pessimistic attitude resonates throughout the soliloquy, supplemented by Hamlet ... dust, the dust is earth, of earth we make loam." Referencing the historical figure Alexander the Great is utilized to promote the pertinenc...

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