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Finding Meaning In Hamlet And Star Wars

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In movies there are thoughts that make the story really interesting. When you get to see what the character is thinking, it is quite astonishing. Sometimes these thoughts are what influence the story to go an interesting way. In the movie Star Wars, one of the biggest quotes in that movie is “I am your father”. To be able to see what luke was thinking would've been interesting. In the play Hamlet, the most famous quote is “to be or not to be”, and that quote has many meanings. The first way that this quote can be referenced as, to kill myself or not to kill myself. The reason that it can be referenced as that s because Hamlet debates on whether to kill himself or not. The reason he is debating that is because he is going through a really rough time and he doesn't know if he can deal with it anymore. So when he is having one of his most important scenes, he says whether he should kill himself. It's crazy to think that he would want to do that. The reason he doesn't do it however is because he thinks he would be hurting his mother. And it's not a manly thing to do. …show more content…

It is to kill or not to kill because other than killing himself he is debating whether to kill his step dad which is his uncle, or not. A lot of people think of this famous quote as that because that is what he's been planning to do for a little while. He thinks about killing his uncle because he found out by his dad's ghost told him that his uncle killed him. He poisoned him when he was sleeping. That's why he thinks whether he should kill his uncle or not. He decided to not kill himself and go on about getting

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He shot himself in the head, seems like a crappy way to die. After you die you have 7 minutes of brain activity left that plays all your memories in a dream like sequence. Imagine the regret that he must have felt. Like hey, let's go shoot myself in the head because that's a great idea. Suicide annoys me, it's the coward's way out.

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