Hamlet:: thinking about questions of life and death

             "â€To sleep! Perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
             For in that sleep of death what dreams may come."
             These lines again mark a transition in thinking. Hamlet is thinking about
             questions of life and death. The lines quoted above is significant in that
             they remind the reader that nobody knows what happens after death. This
             should then be enough of a deterrent for suicide.
             To Be or Not to Be (option #5): The speech struck me personally in that it
             provides a consideration of the aspect of life and death from all
             perspectives. Hamlet as it were leaves not stone unturned in his
             investigation of the significance of life.
             Scene II (option #1): In this scene Hamlet, under the guise of his
             madness, goes further to determine the guilt of the Queen and her new
             husband. He devises a play dramatizing the events as his father's ghost
             made them clear to him. The reactions of the king and queen then reveal to
             Hamlet that they are indeed guilty of the crime.
             Scene III (option #7): I am playing Hamlet. He is feeling so intensely
             negative about his father's brother and the murder, that he will not take
             his uncle's life while the latter is praying. He is afraid of sending him
             to heaven and thus not exacting any revenge at all for the murder.
             Scene IV (option #6): This scene deals with the relationship between
             Hamlet and his mother. Hamlet is indignant and hurt that his mother could
             have committed such a horrendous act. The Queen however uses emotional
             language in order to try appeasing her son:
             "What I have done, that thou darest wag thy tongue
             In noise so rude against me'" (line 38-39).
             Hamlet however will believe none of her pacifying words, since he already
             Scene I (option #3): What confuses me in this scene is that Hamlet's
             madness appears to have helped rather than hindered his mother's and
             uncle's cause. I would like to ask hi
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