HAMLET’S SOLILOQUY

Hamlet’s soliloquy is one of the most important moments in literature. It belongs to Hamlet’s, the worldwide famous play. But why is this soliloquy so important and so famous? The answer can be found at the first line of the speech: ”To be or not to be?” In this soliloquy Hamlet, the main character, is waiting for Ophelia, and meanwhile he starts thinking about his life and about to live or to die would lead to. So the entire monologue is based on the pros and the cons of living or dying. It is clear since the beginning that to, so to live is negative, in Hamlet’s opinion. After all he has gone through, he has come to the conclusion that living means suffering physically and psychologically. On the other hand, dying means to end all this suffering. Dying is an eternal dream, Hamlet’s say, and as it happens when you’re alive, you can have either good or bad dreams, but you can’t feel your “heartache”, that means you can’t suffer from all the bad feelings that torture you every day. In the middle of the soliloquy Hamlet’s makes a list of all the bad aspects living brings to him and to human beings in general, and after that he asks himself why should a human being live and why shouldn’t one kill himself, instead of bearing all that. Considering this, he states his opinion about why don’t human beings kill themselves: what brings people to go on it their fear of what there is after death. No one knows what is waiting for us when we will be death, and this conscience of helplessness, this fear we have for what we can’t understand is bigger than our “desire” to die,