explores the idea of existence by contemplating his humanity at various times throughout the
play and musing on his mortality and life after death.is a remarkably realistic, complex
character who experiences extreme melancholy after the sudden death of his father and 's quick
marriage to his immoral uncle . Hamlet continually contemplates suicide and questions if a life
full of suffering is worth living at all. In his famous , Hamlet contemplates his existence by
saying,
To be, or not to be? That is the questionWhether
tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms
against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleepNo moreand by a sleep to
say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks...To sleep, perchance to dreamay,
theres the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this
mortal coil, Must give us pause. Theres the...
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