![]() ![]() Laertes is willing to concede that Hamlet may be sincere, but his "favor" is like the violet-quick to bloom, quick to die. ![]() This, says Laertes, is how Ophelia should think of Hamlet's feelings for her. "A violet in the youth of primy nature" (1.3.7). A little later in the speech, it becomes clear that Hamlet's disgust at the world arises from his disgust at the fact that his mother is now sleeping with his uncle. In his first soliloquy, Hamlet says of the world, "'tis an unweeded garden, / That grows to seed things rank and gross in nature / Possess it merely" (1.2.134-136).
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