1. Existentialism in Shakespeare's Hamlet
At key moments of crisis in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Hamlet speaks of the nature of life, death, and meaning; those discussions suggest that to have meaning in life you must give it to yourself. ... McCoy says "He doesn't simply ask whether life or death is preferable; it's hard to clearly distinguish the two-"being" comes to look a lot like "not being," and vice versa.... No one knows what death entails, they do however know that once you find out you never return, and that is a strange and gut turning fact. ... --Soft you now! ... At the end of the day you have to be t...
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