Hamlet and Once More To The Lake (Escape from Reality)
In 1994 Nick Leeson, a trader at Barings Bank in London, generated a substantial amount of debt by investing in an unstable market. Attempting to extricate himself from the financial mess, and cover up the debts, he made more frenetic deals. By the time the bank realized, Leeson had created over a billion dollars worth of debt. Trying to escape from his problems, Leeson decided to run away with his wife; first to Borneo and then to Frankfurt where he was arrested and extradited to Singapore, the place where his investing activities transpired.People create problems for themselves and, to avoid the responsibility or consequences of it, many are tempted to try to escape from the difficulty, just as Nick Leeson tried to do. To escape from his predicament, Leeson physically ran away, but it is possible to escape from your problems in a variety of ways; people sometimes have an addiction to escape from their difficulties like alcoholism or drugs, or they try not to deal with it and read to escape to an imaginary world: endless ways exist. However, just as in the case with Nick Leeson, all of these escapes offer only temporary solutions and eventually end up in a worse predicament. Even characters in great literary pieces try to escap
The essay Once More to the Lake, by E. Whichever form of escape we choose, the dilemma sooner or later will come back, and the longer we put it off, the harder it becomes to resolve. Everything considered, it is shown how in a time of crisis, even if we escape somehow, sooner or later we have to face the problem. The father in Once More to the Lake tries to resolve his problems by retreating to his childhood memories, but to no avail. " It becomes apparent that this escape from reality is only a temporary solution as he eventually has to face his fears; clearly trying to escape from reality is never beneficial. He does not realize his misery destroys the beauty of the world around him as he drags everybody through his afflictions; by doing so, not only does Hamlet hurt the people who truly love him, like Ophelia and his mother, he destroys them in the end. (Hamlet carries on talking about the murder)Queen: No more! Even the few famous soliloquies made by Hamlet are all regarding his own suffering , "To be or not to be, that is the question/Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles" . Hamlet is an example of someone who goes to the extreme, by inundating himself in his misery and past, of not wanting to deal with reality. He does not seem to care about anybody else's feelings even though his mother had gone through the same ordeal as he did; despite his mother's pleas for Hamlet to stop talking about the murder, he still selfishly carries on;Queen: O Hamlet, speak no more. Hamlet: You should not have believed me: for virtue cannot So inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of it: I loved you not.
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