How Does Hamlet No Value

A Man With No Value One of the most famous Shakespearean lines-"To be or not to be, that is the question” is found in Hamlet, spoken by the title character himself. While this is the most obvious reference that Hamlet makes to this own philosophy, Hamlet makes frequent proclamations about his stifled life throughout the play. Hamlet views his life in a negative manner, to the point where he finds himself contemplating whether or not to end his own life. Hamlet does not value his life, which causes him to become flustered with himself and his lack of action. Therefore, demonstrating that Hamlet does not value his life as one should. In the beginning of the play, the title character himself, Hamlet, experiences devastation after devastation. His father, the former king of Denmark, had perished unexpectedly. Following the death of his father, his uncle, had claimed the throne and arranged to marry his brother’s wife, Gertrude. All in which took Hamlet on a whirlwind of saddened emotions, which had led up to his selfish thoughts of committing suicide. Everyone in the palace is blinded by the celebrations of a new King to take notice of Hamlet. Therefore, he finds himself secluded and hostile wandering through the palace mindlessly. “Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of the outrageous failure or to take claims against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them?” ( 3.1.58-60). Hamlet asks himself whether or not it is better to push through the

Hamlet views his existing life in a negative manner, and he sees that the only way to escape his misery is to take his own life. A thought of self-slaughter is enough to devalue one’s life, and throughout the entirety of the play it is the only way Hamlet values his own life. To live or not to live, that is Hamlet’s only question, while the value of his own life is not in