Shakespeare's Hamlet-To Be Or Not To Be

Everyone struggles with many choices throughout their lives. Whether it be something as minute as what to have for dinner - to things a bit more important, how to react in life-changing situations. In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” he is presented with the question “to be or not to be” - between life or death, cowardice or bravery and thought or action. Through the wit of a gravedigger and the discovery of Ophelia’s death, he understands the importance of letting things be. First, Hamlet struggles with the choice between life or death. “To be or not to be” (Act 3 Scene 1 Line 57) - in his world of chaos and problems, or the nothingness and darkness of death. He decides whether it is more noble to continue suffering or to end all things, to oppose them by death. As he continues speaking his thoughts he finds the catch. Death is only a pause, you can no longer fulfill anything, and that is why he chooses to
He is educated - and like Horatio, skeptical of things, and always thinking. When he speak to Rosencrantz and Guildernstern, he says “Denmark’s a prison… there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so” (Act 2 Scene 2 Line 241). Which is another indication to the amount he thinks. Further, as he runs into Fortinbras Jr. at the dock before he sets off to England - Hamlet searches for a reason why he is fighting for something that is not worth what he makes it out to be. He then states, “let my thoughts be bloody or nothing worth” (Act 4 Scene 4 Line 65). While he does think about action, he finds reasons not to - instead choosing to remain with his thoughts. However, as Hamlet discovers Ophelia’s death, he is struck with grief and rage. He declares all the things he would have done for her, and even fights her brother within her grave. This opens him up to the idea of things being inevitable - furthering his belief in the need for his thoughts to be bloody in order to make things