Hamlet

carefully examine the "to be or not to be" soliloquy (3.1,64-98) what argumant does hamlet give for commiting suicide? For not commiting suicide? what is his final decision? why? what dramatic purpose does the sliloquy serve?

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Much of his famous soliloquy has to do with offing himself because he's depressed and his mother is having sex with his uncle. Still Hamlet muses about the afterlife, "The undiscovered country from whose bourn. No traveler returns". Is he doing his uncle a favour by killing him? Is Hamlet damning himself by killing his uncle? Hamlet laments the metaphysical pros and cons of killing himself ad nauseam. You see, this is why Hamlet never gets anything done. His revenge is loaded with way too much intellectual baggage!