"Hamlet" is one of the most important and controversial works of William Shakespeare and is often said to be the "Tragedy of Inaction." The key to understanding Hamlet is to understand that he’s not a pessimist man, as many seem to think, but a Renaissance one. That is, he’s torned by two lines of thought, one that is emotional, and other that is rational. Were Hamlet essentially skeptic, he would not suffer when confronted with reality for he wouldn't understand the optimist view of life and of the world. The torment that divides his mind keeps him in a constant state of hesitation, preventing him from either taking action against his uncle or committing suicide. In his first soliloquy we find Hamlet in his most depressed moment. He hadn't met the ghost of his dead father yet, but he misses him and cannot stand the fact that his mother had got married so shortly after the king's death. Hamlet's pain here is so great that he contemplates suicide. He even summons up God and laments his decision to "fix his canon 'gainst self-slaughter". (Act1, Scene 2, Page 5) But analyzing the first lines of said soliloquy we see that religious fear is not the only thing stopping him from actively taking his own life. "Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world!: (Act 1, Scene 2, Page 5) Suicidal ideation is undoubtedly present in Hamlet's mind, as we can see in the quotation above, but at the same time he seems too passive and unwilling to attempt on his own life. He has the suicidal thoughts, but not a trigger that would lead him to the act itself. He desires to disappear, to melt, in a way in what he could not be blamed or judged by God and the people. The next soliloquy in which suicidal thoughts can be pointed begins with the most famous qu