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SPizzini_Hamlet
by SPizzini - (2014-03-07)
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"Hamlet is a real life hero".

Hamlet is man because in expressing his most private thoughts, ideas, doubts and concerns, every listener or reader can perfectly identify with him. Therefore he becomes a paradigm for mankind. Hamlet speaks about the difficult doubt he has in front of life. The doubts are the doubts od modern people. He asks himself  if it is better to stay in the world  and to suffer the terrible “slings and arrows of the outrageous fortune” or to take arms and fight against these problems and to end them. He must decide whether to accept them or fight against. Hamlet considers the possibility of dying. Hamlet’s question is whether to live or not to live, to be or not to be. Hamlet is depressed and wants to get away from the pain by dying. It is wrong to commit suicide because of the fear to deal with problems. Who commits suicide is not happy and he fails in his life. The saying “it is the only possible solution” is always a mistake because it is not a solution but it is an escape from the problem. It is not the solution. Likewise Hamlet compared death to an eternal sleep but dreams can turn into nightmares. It is also wrong to suffer knowing to escape next. Indeed after a second thought Hamlet understands people’s fear what comes after death. Shakespeare’s opinion people are afraid of death because they do not know the consequence. People are cowards. “What is there after death” is the doubt of the modern man. It is the doubt in longing for. Even today’s man is coward because he prefers to continue to suffer because he is afraid of what comes next.