What Is Hamlet's View Of Suicide

Hamlet soon becomes fascinated with the idea of death due to the aftermath of his father’s murder. Throughout the course of the play he considers different perspectives of death, his obsession with death is revealed in Act 4, Scene 3, where Hamlet states, “Not where he eats, but where ‘a is eaten. A certain convocation of politic worms are e’en at him. Your worm is your only emperor for diet … That’s the end” (Shakespeare, p. 1737 par. 10). Behind his words lays a description of the life-cycle, meaning we eat in life and are eaten in death. In the duration of the play, suicide surfaces from Hamlet’s fixation with death. While Hamlet considers killing himself as an option, he does not act upon this idea, simply because suicide was believed
to be a sin. Similarly, he does not act when he has the chance to kill Claudius in Act 3, Scene 3, which ultimately his lack of action brings Hamlet to his demise.