Read the excerpt from Hamlet . Hamlet: O! that this too too solid flesh would melt, Thaw and resolve itself into a dew; Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Fie on ’t! O fie! ’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! Which phrase from the excerpt best reflects Hamlet’s state of mind?
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Thaw and resolve itself into a dew;B
His canon ’gainst self-slaughter!Hamlet feels deeply unhappy and finds life dull and meaningless. The phrase “How weary, stale” directly expresses his exhaustion and despair, especially when he says the world’s “uses” seem unprofitable. “Thaw and resolve itself into a dew” describes his wish to disappear, but “How weary, stale” most clearly names his state of mind.
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