Hamlet Is Life Worth Living Analysis
In addition to Shakespeare illustrating Hamlet’s journey of revenge, he also portrays the idea of worth. After attending his father’s funeral and hearing the celebration over the crowning of his Uncle and new marriage of his mother, Hamlet is confused throughout the play. In fact, this sequences of events was so abrupt that it disturbed Hamlet and rose awareness from the people around him, especially his mother and Claudius. Afraid that Hamlet might be catching onto him, Claudius sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to follow Hamlet and find out why he’s been so mad; however, Polonius, Ophelia’s father and councilor to the King, claims that he is mad because he is madly in love. Polonius is so sure of it that he asks the King to invite Hamlet
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Throughout the soliloquy, Hamlet talks about death; in fact, his first words are, “To be or not to be-,” meaning to be alive or dead that is his question (III i 64). The idea of, ‘is life worth living’ continues not only throughout the speech, but also throughout the play. Furthermore, Hamlet continues by saying, “To die, to sleep-/No more-and by sleep to say we end/The heartache and the thousand natural shocks,” which is stating that dying is just a never ending sleep that ends the troubles of our world (III i 68-70). He explains that death isn’t so bad, that dying is his escape from all this incestuous murder and marriage, then states, “Who would fardels bear,/To grunt and sweat under a weary life,/But that the dread of something after death” (III i 84-86). Basically, Hamlet is saying that those who fear death are the ones who fear Hell. By brining that up Hamlet hints at the fact that he isn’t very happy about all the events that have occurred recently along with shadowing the idea of thats where Claudius will end up for this misdemeanor. Nonetheless, Hamlet ends his soliloquy with we are all weak and cowards of death in his statement of, “Thus conscience does make cowards /And thus the native hue of resolution/Is o’er with the pale cast of though”(III i 91-93). The importance of this self-deliberation was not only to express his reasoning for madness, but to reveal his true
Throughout the soliloquy, Hamlet talks about death; in fact, his first words are, “To be or not to be-,” meaning to be alive or dead that is his question (III i 64). The idea of, ‘is life worth living’ continues not only throughout the speech, but also throughout the play. Furthermore, Hamlet continues by saying, “To die, to sleep-/No more-and by sleep to say we end/The heartache and the thousand natural shocks,” which is stating that dying is just a never ending sleep that ends the troubles of our world (III i 68-70). He explains that death isn’t so bad, that dying is his escape from all this incestuous murder and marriage, then states, “Who would fardels bear,/To grunt and sweat under a weary life,/But that the dread of something after death” (III i 84-86). Basically, Hamlet is saying that those who fear death are the ones who fear Hell. By brining that up Hamlet hints at the fact that he isn’t very happy about all the events that have occurred recently along with shadowing the idea of thats where Claudius will end up for this misdemeanor. Nonetheless, Hamlet ends his soliloquy with we are all weak and cowards of death in his statement of, “Thus conscience does make cowards /And thus the native hue of resolution/Is o’er with the pale cast of though”(III i 91-93). The importance of this self-deliberation was not only to express his reasoning for madness, but to reveal his true