Babies are weighed within the first few hours after birth. The weight is compared with the baby's gestational age and recorded in the medical record. A birthweight less than 2,500 grams (5 pounds, 8 ounces) is diagnosed as low birthweight. Babies weighing less than 1,500 grams (3 pounds, 4 ounces) at birth are considered very low birthweight.
Sure, tragedy is right there in the title. But Hamlet isn't just any tragedyâit's a classic revenge tragedy. Revenge tragedies were all the rage in England during the late 16th and early 17th century, influenced by Seneca's (c. 4 BC - 65 AD) Roman adaptations of Greek tragedies.
At the play's outset, Hamlet is clearly suicidal â he wishes his flesh would melt because his mother's betrayal of his father has made the world seem like a completely corrupted place. Here, he laments that suicide or, self slaughter is a sin.