Suicidal Irony In Hamlet

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Suicidal Irony

Hamlet is self centered and irrational throughout most of the play. He goes through various stages of suicidal thoughts that all revolve around a multitude of selfish reasons because he can not deal with his problems. His outbursts, mood swings, and constantly changing character have led to a multitude of reasons for his decisions to not kill himself. Think of this, it is much easier to die for a cause than to live for a cause, and yet all Hamlet wants to do is take the easy way out. There are three major soliloquies that Hamlet has that prove as major turning points of his emotions. Hamlet’s suicidal thoughts ring loud and clear for most of the play, however they do change constantly and play key pieces that provide well written and thought provoking soliques.

Hamlet is over a serious distress because he is too cowardice to kill Claudius when the ghost of king Hamlet visits him. He believes that he is lower than a villain for not being able to defeat the villain. This is still early on in the play and he feels that his life means nothing. At one point, he is comparing himself to people of a lower class when he exclaims, “ Why, what an ass am I! This …show more content…

Yet he finds it really hard to kill himself because he is not one hundred percent certain on what the afterlife could hold, if there even is one at all. At one point he says “ To grunt and sweat under a weary life, but that the dread of something after death, the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns, puzzles the will, and make us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we know not of?”(3.184-89) His mortal thoughts and ideas that they believed of after death was very hazy at this time, and his cowardice of the unknown prevents him from killing

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