a) Identify the speaker
b) Explain the circumstances in which the lines are spoken
c) Explain the significance of the quotation in terms of character, conflict, imagery, motifs, symbolism
2. "Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew,
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed
His canon gainst self-slaughter!" (1.2.129-132)
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