Hamlet's first soliloquy strikes a note of despair and reveals his feelings towards life and the hasty marriage between his mother and his uncle. Hamlet wishes to "thaw and resolve [...] into a dew" but is restrained by the canon law that condemns him to eternal suffering in hell if he were to do so. Hamlet is disheartened and full of sorrow because he continues to mourn his father's death, but the primary source of his …showed first 75 words of 469 total…

…showed last 75 words of 469 total…one, they are both faced with obstacles involving their families. In the novel, the main character is young man and his father passed away and he was forced to move in with his uncle who beats him on a regular basis. Although Hamlet and the main character's conflicts are different, they both handle it in the same manner; they remain men of inaction. Both characters just decide to "[hold their] tongue" (I, ii, 159) Word Count: 469