Essay On Hamlet's Last Soliloquy

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In Shakespeare 's series of great tragedies, Hamlet was initially classified as a problem play when the term became fashionable in the nineteenth century. Hamlet focuses on the difficulties arising from love, death, and betrayal. The Prince of Denmark (Hamlet) who is the protagonist of the story has a unique way of seeing life as moody, bitter and skeptical.

In the soliloquy: "O, that is too sullied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, or that the everlasting had not fixed 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 ‘t!ah fie! ‘Tis an unweeded garden that grows to seed. Things rank and gross in nature possess it merely (Mac 1.2.129-137). In this soliloquy, Hamlet is suicidal as the world he now sees is entirely corrupted to a certain extent, he wishes his "flesh …show more content…

The only downside, however, is that we might have dreams when we are dead—bad/evil dreams. According to Hamlet in that quote, "being in love" is like getting hit by thousands of arrows because the pain is unbearable, as it really hurts that much, and due to the fact that his mom married so soon after his father 's death makes him feel a sense of betrayal. In any case, Hamlet thinks about whether it 's ideal to endure the awful things you think about in life than to keep running off into death 's "undiscovered country." His issue is that he wouldn 't like to continue living when he is super discouraged about his uncle executing his father and marrying his mother, however, he doesn 't recognize what death will bring and that is frightening, as well. He could consequently wind up like his father. Thinking about death itself is indeed frightening as it sends chills throughout our body, and gives us that very uncomfortable feeling of fear, haunt, and