We were required to memorize a speech that
we considered to be the most important and the most relevant to what
was happening within the play of Hamlet . I chose to memorize a speech where
the main character, Hamlet, is contemplating suicide and is mourning the loss
of his father as well as the loss of the innocent love of his mother.
- O, that this too too sullied flesh would melt,
- Thaw and resolve itself into a dew,
- Or that the Everlasting had not fix’s
- His cannon ‘gainst self- slaughter! O God! God!
- How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
- Seem to me all the uses of this world!
- Fie on’t! ah fie! ‘Tis an unweeded garden
- That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature
- Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
- But two months dead- nay, not so much, not two-
- So excellent a king, that was to this
- Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
- That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
- Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,
- Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
- As if increase of appetite had grown
- By what it fed on; and yet, within a month-
- Let me not think on’t- Frailty, thy name is woman-
- A little month, or ere those shoes were old
- With which she follow’d my poor father’s body,
- Like Niobe, all tears- why she, even she-
- God! A beast that wants discourse of reason
- Would have mourn’d longer- married with my uncle,
- My father’s brother, but no more like my father
- Than I to Hercules. Within a month,
- Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears
- Had left the flushing in her galled eyes,
- She married. O, most wicked speed, to post
- With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!
- It is not, nor it cannot come to good.
- But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue.
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