... as a possible sign of disaster or catastrophe in Denmark, as to what happened before the death of Julius Caesar. From the start of the play, Denmark was already tainted and wrought with disease that would eventually continue over the course of the play. In Hamlet's first soliloquy, he states that the world is "an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess ... foundation of disease, which affected everyone active person in that first act. In the second act, Hamlet begins to go mad. "For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion,...

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