In Hamlet’s second soliloquy he is contemplating existence wavering on his chance to kill the king his thoughts of whether it is worth continuing existing or to cease existing and “To die: to sleep:/ No more; and by sleep say we end/ The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks...”(III.ii 61-63). He thinks of all the possible repercussions of his actions almost all avenging heroes never stop and think about what they are doing and what reactions their actions might cause this shows a divide between Hamlet and the man of Elizabethan times. He contemplates mortality and compares it to the immortality of stories and legends and how if he continued his existence he would be remembered regardless of if he succeeded in killing the king or failed. …show more content…
Talks about the afterlife and how nobody can conquer or explore it “The undiscove’d country from whose bourn/ No traveller returns puzzles the will…”(II.i 80,81) meaning that Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and countless other leaders in real life will have the same experience in death this boundary to the unknown is for every human to cross, this unknown is what every human fears for in the end everyone comes to the undiscovered country and must explore it themselves. The reason that it is always undiscovered is because no one has ever returned from the dead to tell us what happens after