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Ambiguity In Hamlet

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Hamlet expresses his self-hatred and acceptance of death throughout the play due to the agony of his father’s death. In Hamlet’s soliloquy, “To be or not to be”, Hamlet believes that all would prefer to be dead than living, yet everyone living is alive only because of a common fear of suicide. Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy is one of the most famous in all of Western literature for its ambiguity and contemplation on morality in death. “To be, or not to be, that is the question: / Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, / Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, / And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep -- / No more. And by a sleep to say we end / The heartache, and the thousand …show more content…

His self-examination does give him a level-head at the end of the play despite the ultimate tragedy that comes. Self-examination for Hamlet is the understanding that he understands very little. Hamlet mastered the basic concepts of philosophy and wisdom at the end of his life. His rashness, arbitrary indecisive nature, and turmoil were the products of attempting to understand the forces at work and indeed led to his demise. His actions following his interaction with his father’s ghost were the result of rash anger. After contemplating death, suicide and accepting the inevitability of having to sacrifice a sense of morals, his honor, or his dignity, his actions became increasingly rationale. Self-examination is therefore the process of acknowledging one’s relative position to the world and accepting that all events are arbitrary at nature. Instead of attempting to find an abstract truth, more peace will be found in the pose that ignorance is bliss. “To be or not to be” ignorant is not a conscious decision, rather it is a will. As Nietzsche implores, a being is nothing more than what it is willed to be. Thus, if it is willed that humans are to be ignorant of invisible seemingly abstract forces, then that acceptance will bring content to the relative position of

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