Origins of English paragraph

Shakespeare uses the rhetorical interrogative 'how weary, stale, flat and unprofitable seems to me all the uses of this world?' to describe his character Hamlet's wishes to take his own life. At the time this play was first shown, suicide would have been seen as a great sin as Catholicism was followed in such an orthodox fashion. It is likely due to this context that this would have left the audience very shocked that such an act was spoken about so casually. It could be argued from this that the expectations of text consumption are being fulfilled as the nature of such a text would be to entertain and use of such a taboo topic would have certainly caused unrest and entertainment. It could also be argued that for the same reason the expectations of the text are not being fulfilled because it is probable that many of the audience members wold have been outraged about such an act being somewhat normalised by a play. Furthermore, the phrase 'uses of this world' connotes a certain selfishness in that it refers to taking from the world as oppose to giving. This is likely to have further, shocked an audience who were likely to be religious and therefore brought up to believe in a giving, worshipping environment.