Read Hamlet's first soliloquy (Act 1 Scene 2, “Oh, that this too too solid flesh, would melt”). What does he say? Paraphrase the soliloquy in 2-3 sentences.

In his first soliloquy, Hamlet expresses the depths of his melancholy and his disgust at his mother’s hastily marrying Claudius after the death of his father. He declares his father to be many times Claudius’ superior as a man.