Why Die In Act 3 Scene 1 In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

Why Live? The soliloquy “To be, or not to be: that is the question” appears in Act 3 Scene 1 in William Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of Hamlet. In today's life people live with a struggle. Suicide takes the lives of one million people a year and on the rise. The weight of one's mortality and the complexities of life and death are introduced from the beginning of Hamlet. In the wake of his father's death, Hamlet can't stop pondering and considering the meaning of life and its eventual ending. Many questions come up like what happens when you die? If you're murdered, then will you go to heaven? Do kings truly have a free pass to heaven? Over 2.7 million adults made suicide plans and 1.4 million made nonfatal suicide attempts. Suicide has been a
The problem is “self slaughter” is a sin. Throughout the play hamlet has to decide is death worth it in the long run? In Hamlet's mind the idea of dying isn't so bad. It's the uncertainty of the afterlife that frightens Hamlet away from suicide, even though he's obsessed with the notion. People who do have the sad thoughts need to find a way help. While depression is the mental illness that is most strongly associated with suicidal thoughts, it doesn't often lead to suicidal acts. Recent research has shown that it is other mental illnesses, like anxiety disorders, problems with impulse control and addiction, that are actually more strongly linked to suicide attempts. Hamlet was obsessed with getting revenge for his father’s death, yet he always was on the line of they way he wanted it all to
Even though eight of the nine primary characters die, the question of mortality is not fully answered. The questions about suicide, and what comes after are left unanswered. "It is a leading cause of death and we just don't have a handle on it," says Matthew K. Nock, a psychology professor at Harvard and one of the country's leading suicide researchers. In both Hamlet and today's society, people seen an escape from the world. People will do anything they can to change their mind away from the old. Hamlet then says "As one incapable of her own distress Or like a creature native and endued Unto that element." (Act 4 Scene 7 lines 203-205) This is the second time when he explicitly contemplates suicide, but this time, he goes into thinking about why someone may take his own life, it seems as if he really is going to commit suicide soon. This is the first time that Hamlet verbally contemplates suicide, in yet another soliloquy. He goes on this rant after Gertrude and King Claudius just asked him to remain in Denmark, and seeing the two together triggered rage within Hamlet as the late King Hamlet had only died two months