How To Read Hamlet

Hamlet, a greek tragedy written by William Shakespeare, is a book commonly read throughout multiple high schools in which teaches students about selfishness and some unappealing aspects that can be found within their peers in their everyday lives. As a seventeen year old highschool student that was forced to read Hamlet, I can say that I was not very motivated to do so. For me personally, it was a very difficult read; and I believe that there are multiple reasons behind its difficulty. The language itself is a very difficult barrier to cross; the culture, and the english was very different back then so of course it is going to be difficult for the people of our day and age to understand.
Although it can be very hard to understand, once you do you can see that there are many moral lessons throughout. One example of this is Hamlet’s advice to his mother,

That a monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, of habits devil, is angel yet in this, that to the use of actions fair and good he likewise gives a frock or livery, that aptly is put on. Refrain to-night, and that shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence: the next more easy; for use almost can change the stamp of nature, and either the devil, or throw him out with wondrous potency” (Act 3, Scene 4).
In this, Hamlet is telling his mother how to break a bad habit, which is something people could use within their everyday lives. He explains how a bad habit can be replaced with a good one; and although the first day is the hardest, getting through that day makes it easier to get through the