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wefto the death in assortment of ways they can be in sorrow and grief, completely be silent about it, or be angry and take vengeance. The play Hamlet by William Shakespeare looks at a man named hamlet whose father was killed by his uncle, throughout the play it shows hamlet and how he reacts to his emotions about his father decease.the views of death in this play have some extraordinary twists and turns on how the aspects of it. Hamlet questions if it's worth living in the sorrow and anger he has built up. Hamlet shows how religion, his love for Ophelia, and being mentally unstable plays many factors in the way he thinks and life its self.

Hamlets father dies in the play and that is when hamlet gets his experience with death. Hamlet looks at death as a mystery always questioning his existence he says " to be or not to be.." that right there his him questioning his existence wondering if it is actually worth living in all the pain and sorrow he is going through. hamlet goes in to a massive depression stage questioning life its self. Wondering why he shouldn't just kill him self. How it would be easier get to go see the after life and what it can behold for you. Hamlet doesn't know how to handle the emotions that he is having. Knowing that it would be easier to kill him self then actually deal with the things that are going on around him. He doesn't care that he would leave all the people in his life at the moment just to take a chance at another spirit in another world. Not knowing what lies after and death and what can be attained in the afterlife he can't commit suicide.but he is alsoafraid to commit suice it seems. Hamlet shows that sometimes he doesn't want to be here but he needs to stay here so he can show the truth and what really happened to his father. And expose his uncle for his wrong doing. Also Hamlet talk about suicide again when he says "113523452345" " O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself in a dew! Or that the everlasting had not fix'd his canon gainst self slaughter! O god! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on'!ah fie! Tis an unweeded garden, that grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature possess it merly.'' In this quote it shows that hamlet is in a suicidal state, he wants his flesh to melt of his body so he can just pass away and die. He wants that to happen but he still knows he cant. He also talks about how self slaughter is a sin.

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