Othat this too too solid flesh would melt, 1

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 5

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!

but two months dead! — nay, not so much, not two: 10

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 15

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 followed my poor father's body 20

like niobe, all tears; — why she, even she, —

o god! a beast that wants discourse of reason,

would have mourn'd longer, — married with mine uncle,

my father's brother; but no more like my father

than i to hercules: within a month; 25

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; 30

but break my heart, — for i must hold my tongue!
question 7 (5 points)

in this speech, the primary reason for hamlet’s bleak outlook on life is:

question 7 options:

the fact that his claim to the throne has been usurped by his uncle, claudius.

the haste with which his mother has forgotten his father’s virtues and married his uncle.

the fact that suicid is not an option because almighty god has forbidden it.

the way in which all the uses of the world now seem to him “stale, flat and unprofitable.”

The following excerpts that illustrate darl's and cash's points of view from william faulkner's as i lay dying: from darl: tull's wagon stands beside the spring, hitched to the rail, the reins wrapped about the seat stanchion. in the wagon bed are two chairs. jewel stops at the spring and takes the gourd from the willow branch and drinks. i pass him and mount the path, beginning to hear cash's saw. when i reach the top he has quit sawing. standing in a litter of chips, he is fitting two of the boards together. between the shadow spaces they are yellow as gold, like soft gold, bearing on their flanks in smooth undulations the marks of the adze blade: a good carpenter, cash is. he holds the two planks on the trestle, fitted along the edges in a quarter of the finished box. he kneels and squints along the edge of them, then he lowers them and takes up the adze. a good carpenter. addie bundren could not want a better one, better box to lie in. it will give her confidence and comfort. i go on to the house, followed by the chuck. chuck. chuck. of the adze. from cash: i made it on the bevel. there is more surface for the nails to grip. there is twice the gripping-surface to each seam. the water will have to seep into it on a slant. water moves easiest up and down or straight across. in a house people are upright two thirds of the time. so the seams and joints are made up-and-down. because the stress is up-and-down. in a bed where people lie down all the time, the joints and seams are made sideways, because the stress is sideways. except. a body is not square like a crosstie. animal magnetism. the animal magnetism of a dead body makes the stress come slanting, so the seams and joints of a coffin are made on a bevel. compare how the two narrators tell the story of addie bundren's impending death. is either narrator reliable? explain what the reader learns about each narrator. be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.