Analysis on Hamlet’s soliloquy

The text is arranged like a script because Shakespeare’s poem is a play, so it is meant to represent what the actors are supposed to say.

In this soliloquy Hamlets underlines the pros and cons of life and death. First off he thinks about what is nobler between living and suffering from the outrageous fortune and taking arms against a sea of trouble; then he compares death to an eternal sleep and he says that by sleeping we end all the heart ache but sleeping implies even dreaming and that’s the trick. Hamlet is worried about what dreams may come in the death sleep. So he asks himself the question: “why everyone doesn’t kill himself?”, and by comparing death to the discovery of places we know not of he comes up with the answer by saying that everyone, included him, is made coward by the conscience, that blocks us form taking a step forward.