In What Is Life Worth By Amanda Ripley Analysis

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Hamlet essay What is the Value of life? Many people often have different perspectives on what the value of life is. To me the value of life is living life to the very fullest and enjoying every second of it even if there are low times. Hamlet’s perspective on life was always negative. He never really cared to better his life. Instead he was seeking out revenge for the death of his father. On the other hand, Robert Ebert, the author of “Essential man” had a completely different perspective on life when Hamlet was always seeking out for the worst Ebert was looking for positivity in all things possible. “In What is Life Worth” By Amanda Ripley she talks about the monetary value of a dead person had they lived. Lastly in Steve Jobs Commencement speech he explained how life took him in many different directions but his value of life remained the same thought all his hardships. …show more content…

If it were not banned to kill yourself Hamlet would have killed himself in the beginning when he started to not value his life. “Ah, I wish my dirty flesh would melt away into vapor, or that god had not made a law against suicide. Oh god,god! How tired, stale, and pointless life is to me. Damn it! It's like a garden that no one is taking care of, and that's growing wild.” (pg. 27 act 1 scene 2). Hamlet never feared the consequences of his actions. For example he hallucinated his dead father’s spirit telling him to seek revenge and kill Claudius and Polonius. “Things rank and gross in nature possess. It merely that it should come to this. But two months dead nay not so much not two.So excellent a king.” (pg. 26 Act 1 scene

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