Can someone suddenly faced with the death of a father and the monstrous corruption of an uncle overcome their fear as well as the meaning behind death? Confronted by the pains and sorrow of death, the main character from Shakespeare's Hamlet must search and find the meaning behind the whole idea of death. When looking deeper into the life of young Hamlet, it becomes easy to see a lonely and tragic figure living in a hostile and isolated environment that views the world only as a meaningless and unexplainable state. Hamlet becomes lost and obsessed with grief and so fascinated by death that he must overcome it and take action. William Shakespeare uses the motif of death to show that morbid people faced with a difficult task can not take action until they accept the uncertainty of the outcome.
             Hamlet has trouble accepting the anguish of his father's death, and he becomes infatuated with grief and expresses his sorrow to a great extent. For example, he considers himself caught underneath "all of the forms, moods, and shapes of grief" (1.2 85-86) of his father's death, and does not know how to release himself from his suffering. Up until this point, Hamlet has been grieving over his father's passing for over two months, and has become fixated with the idea of him being dead. In addition, Hamlet feels pressured with all of "the trappings and suits of woe" (1.2 89) and he has difficulty letting go. It seems as if Hamlet does not see the purpose behind life, and he constantly ponders on the idea even though he does not understand it. Without a true father, it is evident that Hamlet needs some kind of guidance and his corrupt uncle has trouble delivering it to him. Hamlet has no indication on how he should feel about his father's passing, or "what should be the fear" after death, claiming that he does not "set [his] life at a pin's fee." (1.4 72-75) Hamlet refuses to change his outlook on the situation, and he is clea...