To be or not to be
We see Hamlet ride an emotional roller coaster filled with grief, shame, anger, depression, and self doubt. Hamlets "to be or not to be" soliloquy demonstrates all of Hamlet's emotions that he has been struggling with throughout the play. This soliloquy merely gives us a summation of these emotions in regards to his father's death, his mother's hasty remarriage, the ghost, and his own procrastination in seeking the revenge of his fathers murder. In order for me to better understand what Hamlet was attempting to say within this soliloquy I had to put it into words I could better understand: Hamlet: Do I really want to live? Should I go on like this, Being miserable, and try to beat my enemies? Or should I just kill myself and get it all over with? Life sucks. I wish I were dead. Death is like a nice, long nap. But what if I dream of really bad things? It's definitely something to worry about. If there wasn't anything to fear in the afterlife, Why would anyone suffer through this miserable existence? Why deal with life's troubles when it all could be solved with a dagger? No reason...unless something bad might lie beyond the grave. No one comes back from the dead to tell us what it's li
He now has a better understanding of who he really is and what he must do. "Here Hamlet is telling us the disgrace he feels for not have already taken his revenge and killing Claudius and how he has to reject the feelings of love he has towards Ophelia due to the rules of nobility that deem her unworthy of a prince's affections. "To die, to sleep" He tries to rationalized suicide by comparing it to sleeping or an eternal nap. Yet he is reluctant to take such action because baring these burdens may be a small price to pay for not having to endure "the undiscover'd country from whose bourn". This is what he and ultimately everyone dreads the most, Hell. ke, So we go on living and being unhappy. Also, he is grappling with the difficulty of taking action against Claudius and the fact that he has not been able to revenge his father's murder yet. As the rest of the play unfolds we can see that slowly bit by bit he grows even more confident and focused on his goal of revenge and see him think of suicide less and less. Or in more simpler terms the afterworld that everyone is destined to end up at some point, yet by committing suicide he would be destine to a world of misery more grueling that what he is experiencing now. "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?"What does Hamlet mean by this? He truly sees that he only has two options, to take his own life or to kill Claudius, a him or me type scenario. Basically I feel, as I stated before, that he is debating whether or not to commit suicide and brave what may happen on the other side, or to actually face his problems and get his revenge. When Hamlet speaks of the "sea of troubles" I see this as him questioning whether or not to actually seek his revenge and finally killing Claudius. " Here I believe that again he is trying to tell us how badly he really wants to die.
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