Hamlet Speech

Is it better to live, or to die? That is the Question.

Is it more noble to suffer through life,

dodging the hardships that come your way?

Or do put an end to all of it by simply, dying,

not live and go to sleep. By sleep we end the

many troubles in life and the headaches. Death is

a final treat we all wish to have! Aww but the problem 

is what comes after, the dream. After we suffered

the mortal life on earth we fear what comes after.

This is what we worry about and what makes 

us drag out our lives so long. If not for this

who would deal with life's problems? The man 

putting us down, cocky bastards insulting us,

heart aches from broken hearts, the poorness of 

the law, the smugness of people in office, and the 

good people who are abused. Who would put 

themselves through this  if they did not have 

fear for something after death. Death is the

unknown place from which we never get an news

of how it is. We would rather suffer the life of earth

than go to a life we know nothing of. The idea of

death and an end to it all is plastered over with 

the fear of the unknown. This leads the path

towards death to be redirected. Oh but I

must stop talking for the beautiful Ophelia is coming.

In Hamlets soliloquy he ponders about death and whether or not it is better to live the miserable life or to die. This gives us an insight to how troubled Hamlet is about all the things going in his life such as his grief over his fathers death and his relationship with Ophelia. The main topic of his speech is what comes after death. While he says sleeping (or death) is a great idea in itself but the problem is what your dreams will be after, or your afterlife. I find this a very neat idea of afterlife being a dream. When you die your still there and we see you as sleeping, but pretend you go to heaven or to hell at that moment. It would seem to the onlooker as a dream but to yourself dreams are real. Beowulf believes that the only reason people aren't killing themselves are dying early is because they are afraid of the afterlife. This is a fairly dark way to look at it as most of them probably believe in god. So Hamlet believes that most people are destined for Hell rather than heaven, otherwise they wouldn't be scared to die. As a whole the speech tells us that Hamlet is on the verge of becoming insane. He does not enjoy his life because of all the "arrows and outrageous fortune" he has to deal with. HOwever he is afraid of the afterlife which might possibly be because his father has come back as a ghost which isn't represented as a great way of going living.