The Role Of Bargaining In Hamlet

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Bargaining is an important stage when it comes to grieving because we all desire the ability to go back in time and prevent the loss of someone we love. There is often a bargaining with ourselves over our own identity that comes from the loss of someone we love. Hamlet is questioning his own life. He is bargaining with whether or not he wants to continue living with all the chaos happening around him. “To be, or not to be- that is the question: whether ‘tis nobler to the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune… and by apposing end them. To die- to sleep- No more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache.”(ACT III scene i) In this quote we see Hamlet debate his own life and consider whether dying would be better than to