In his opinion, no one would put up with it if there was no mystery about life after death. However, in our fear of life after death, we "[ ] bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of [ ]" (III.i.81-82). This uncertainty makes humans, in Shakespeare's thought, deal with the reality of the troubles that life brings to every person. Shakespeare is correct in pointing out that life is indeed full of disappointments but for us to put up with it because of our uncertainty of life after death is a poor excuse for why we continue to live. ... Despite the struggle within his ...

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In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare, the character Hamlet speaks his "To be, or not to be" soliloquy. ... Hamlet starts his speech with, "To be, or not to be," in other words, to live or not to live. ... Hamlet believes that his dreams may be what death could be like, but there is no way to know the truth. ... He decides that he is not certain about the afterlife, so this uncertainty about the afterlife prevents him from committing suicide. The "dread of something after death" makes people stay with their suffering life than the possibility of death being miserable. ...

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In Hamlet's first soliloquy after the encounter with the ghost early in the play, when the ghost tells him that he must seek revenge, Hamlet quickly acknowledges his duty as a son. ... Hamlet's duty to the monarchy is to protect the King and Hamlet's role in society as a Prince is to show leadership, live an honourable life and ensure stability in the kingdom. ... And after we will both our judgements join In censure of his seeming. ... His revenge however is justified and he asks Horatio to report his "cause to the unsatisfied" so that society accepts Hamlet's act...

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God, the Holy Spirit, the Divine Being, He controls fate before and after death. ... This uncertainty as to what comes after life causes great anguish and despair in the conscious being. ... However, the nescience of what comes after death, "puzzles the will, and makes [Hamlet] bear those ills [he has]"" (3.1.81-82). ... The facade' of an antic temperament, combined with grim thinking of death and morals, lead Hamlet to his existential crisis, and eventually, his psychosis. In conclusion, Hamlet's fear of death is what keeps him from taking his own life. ...

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First and foremost, after first hearing of the crime from his father's ghost, Hamlet immediately sets out to takes action. ... Hamlet is unhappy with his life and where he lives that he calls "Denmark is a prison"(2, 2, 262) Hamlet, besieged by guilt and self-contempt, remarks in his second soliloquy of Hamlet of the emotion this player showed despite the fact that the player had nothing to be emotion about. ... Hamlet again sets out to avenge his father's death. ... " (3, 4, 28) Hamlet sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to their deaths in England. ... Hamlet's flaw of irres...

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Polonius was slained by Hamlet after having been mistaken for the King. ... She killed herself after knowledge of her fathers' death. ... This uncertainty, by his alleged madness only made him become perfectly calm and rational later. ... He struggles with avenging his father's death. ... Isn't it ironic that that the two characters who enjoy life most are those who face death on a regular bases? ...

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Whoever takes his life by any means had unjustly takes a life Allah has made sacred. ... The readers were informed that she is a beautiful young woman with whom Hamlet has been in love. ... In the aftermath of his father's murder, Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death, and over the course of the play he considers death from a great many perspectives. ... Throughout, the idea of death is closely tied to the themes of spirituality, truth, and uncertainty in that death may bring the answers to Hamlet's deepest questions, ending once and for all the problem of trying to determine tru...

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After much thought, he decides that he will seek revenge through Claudius's guilt (Hazlitt). ... - (Shakespeare, Lines 547-604) In Hamlets soliloquy in Act Three, Scene One, he ponders the value of his own life by contemplating the moral aspects of suicide, life, death, and afterlife (Shakespeare). ... In Act 4, Scene 4, Hamlet compares his inaction with Fortinbras's action (Coleridge). ... Hamlet's soliloquies revealed the many dimensions behind Hamlets appearance and aided the audience in building a connection with him. ......

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Throughout the play Hamlet, Hamlet only cares about his own misery happening in his life without thinking about the other people's problems and causing them to suffer. ... An example of a life he took was Polonius's. ... Ophelia was self-destructed due to the death of her father, which was caused by Hamlet. ... "(3.1.150) Hamlet has left the audience with uncertainty about how he is feeling about Ophelia. ... Hamlet is angry with her because she has married Claudius after the death of her husband and she didn't show that she cared that her husband has died. ...

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Although contextual values change, the basic human desire to seek answers to the fundamental questions of life has not, causing Shakespeare's play to speak in different ways. ... " after obeying the ghost's command to "...revenge his foul and most unnatural murder.... Hamlet's irrational and impulsive behavior coincides with A.P. ... Act 1, Scene 2 delves further into the complex characterization of Hamlet and the moral dilemma he is governed by, the death of the King and marriage of Gertrude and Claudius. ... This chaos strips away the appearances, established by the ...

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According to the etymology of the word itself, the junction of con with scientia forms conscientia which means a "knowledge with." ... How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. (1.2.129-134) Depressed by his father's death and distraught by his mother's impure remarriage, Hamlet wishes that he could become nothing more than a vapor and simply vanish. ... In Hamlet's famous fourth soliloquy, we see Hamlet's conscience urging him not to end his life and its problems but to endure their trials because of the risks of what happens aft...

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He needs her as a support for his life. ... Because Hamlet lost the only person he still truly loves he becomes even more enraged and antic, when she repels him again, after her father's accidental murder. If Hamlet were not antic after he killed Polinus he might have begged Ophelia's forgiveness. Hamlet loses Ophelia when he kills her father and thus he become more enraged with himself and he became even more determined to avenge his father's death. The next logical place for Hamlet to vent anger is with Claudis, because he already had words with his mother. ...

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(V, ii, 352-353) Even after his death, Horatio still wants only the best for Hamlet. ... Claudius not only murders his own brother, and Hamlet's father, but he also marries Hamlet's mother Gertrude a very short time after the death of his brother. ... Upon hearing the news of Hamlet's escape, the King's ambition once again compels him to come up with another plan in order to assure the death of Hamlet. ... As with any relationship, Hamlet's rise and fall can be contributed to the people in his life who both care and have a lack of care for him. ... After Hamlet'...

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He also presents the audience with a more complex and pensive heroic figure through his portrayal of Hamlet. ... He is not concerned with what will happen to him in this life or after his death, and he states, "that both the worlds I give to negligence, let come what comes- (IV.V.131). ... After seeing Claudius' reaction to the play, Hamlet is convinced that he did murder his father. ... Hamlet is reminded that death can come to anyone and has no regard for age or social status. ... It is unfortunate that Hamlet cannot feel the satisfaction after all his troubles, as he dies. ...

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The appearance of the ghost in the first act changes the fate that has struck Denmark with the sudden death of Old King Hamlet and turns the play into a revenge tragedy. ... Old King Hamlet was a warrior king who risked his life and fought for his country on the battleground. ... Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands which he stood seiz?... He is the one who reveals his fate to Young Hamlet with the order to revenge his death (see I.5.29). ... In the theology of Catholicism, there is a notion that between the stages of death and life after the death exists a purgatory of the soul...

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who would these fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death,"" The undiscover'd country, from whose bourn No traveller returns,""puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? ... He compares death to sleep and thinks of it as the end to suffering, pain, and uncertainty it might bring, "the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to." ... He then decides that the uncertainty of the afterlife, which is closely related to the theme of the diffic...

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In William Shakespeare's Hamlet, the main character Hamlet vows to avenge his father's death at the hands of Claudius. ... Hamlet's uncertainty causes delays in seeking his revenge, and ultimately fulfilling his destiny throughout the play. ... Hamlet is aware that soon enough, he must murder Claudius for causing the death of his father as well as putting Hamlet through the pain he has been in. ... As the Norwegian Captain leaves to face death in war, Hamlet was lost in thought. ... This trip only lasts until Hamlet discovers that it is meant to end his life. ...

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Within Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Stoppard uses a play within a play to blur the line that defines reality, and in doing so creates confusion both onstage- with his characters, and offstage- with the audience. ... Death in Hamlet is given significance and value due to Elizabethan society's strong ties to religion. The uncertainty of the afterlife made the death mysterious, but also greatly feared. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, however, since life is seen as purposeless and directionless, death is seen as rather insignificant. The value of life after the Second Worl...

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In Act I Scene 5, the Ghost explains to Hamlet, how Claudius, Hamlet's uncle, murdered his father and that he wants Hamlet to avenge his death (I.v.38-90). ... Eliot is "a feeling which he cannot understand remains to poison life and construct action.... After the Ghost's visit, in a few weeks, Hamlet's indecision led to doubt, and more absolute proof was needed. ... Another negative aspect of Hamlet's personality has to do with misogyny, a hatred of women or womanhood. ... The uncertainty of life in general is personified in Gertrude, Hamlet's mother. ...

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And the reason was none-other-than the remarriage of Gertrude, his mother, to his uncle, Claudius, within a month after King Hamlet's death. ... After awhile, Polonius, the king's chancellor, politely informed Hamlet that "[Polonius will] take my leave with you, " but the bitter prince only replied, "You cannot, sire take from me anything that I will/ not more willingly part with all except my life." ... Hamlet wished to end his own life, but death was "the undiscoverd country, from whose bourn/ No traveler returns." ... Hamlet desired for death in order to be set free of life, but...

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Hamlet was a tragedy by definition, containing definite stages of development, with the expectation of resolution. ... Hamlet considers ending the torture of his life. ... He reaches Hamlets conclusion that life must be preferable to death, and says, -Life in a box is better than no life at all, d expect. ... Yet one idea about death changes from Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. ... Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are both preoccupied with the philosophy of language; Hamlet through the many questions and riddles, which reveal the main character's st...

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At the same time, in William Shakespeare's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from his play "Hamlet," the main character struggles with whether to live or to take his own life. ... These three literary works share the commonality that they all deal with the issue of death. ... The three poems show different feelings towards death such as Thomas's "fight" against it, Bryant's embracement of it, and Shakespeare's uncertainty. ... In Shakespeare's soliloquy, Hamlet shows his uncertainty for what happens after death when he describes death as "the undiscovered country from w...

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Within Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Stoppard uses a play within a play to blur the line that defines reality, and in doing so creates confusion both onstage- with his characters, and offstage- with the audience. ... Death in Hamlet is given significance and value due to Elizabethan society's strong ties to religion. The uncertainty of the afterlife made the death mysterious, but also greatly feared. In Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, however, since life is seen as purposeless and directionless, death is seen as rather insignificant. The value of life after the Second Worl...

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She is not able to be honest with Hamlet or her father about how she feels or what she wants, and this predicament is what drives her to a mental breakdown. ... Madness is the only viable outcome after years of mental abuse and imprisonment. ... Her father's death allows Ophelia to finally live her life without his constant scrutiny. ... In an expression of both madness and freedom Ophelia sleeps with Hamlet. ... "It is after all, an imposition of high order to ask the viewer to attend to Ophelia's sufferings in a scene where, before, he's always so comfortably kept his eye...

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