Hamlet contemplates death and suicide - what Hamlet wants to do and the fear of the consequences of his actions, “O, let this too solid flesh melt, / Thaw and dissolve into dew! / Or that the Lord had not repaired / His cannon against self-mutilation! (I. ii. 129 – 132). We receive the image of suicide as a juxtaposition between the desire to die and the desire to live, “To be or not to be – that is the question” (III.i. 56). Almost from Hamlet's first appearance, we reveal a major underlying concept of tragedy, the contrast between death and morality made evident by the sonic opposition between inside and outside, order and disorder. Both soliloquies illustrate a man disconcerted and wracked by inconsolable grief – eager for revenge – yet unable to know how to react to what has happened. Hamlet is not simply suicidal, nor simply melancholy over the murder of his father. The language of the play rather alludes to a man driven to despair, philosophically posing the enigma of wanting to abandon one's life while possessing the responsibility....