"(Don't) Be Hamlet"

         Hamlet's soliloquy states a dilemma that is important to the whole play and I think that I can help him make a decision based on life experiences and logic.

         In his soliloquy Hamlet is trying to make a choice between committing suicide or staying alive. There are certain factors that come into play when he thinks to himself. He talks out loud to not keep everything inside and mental but also to listen to himself discuss his choices and give him a better picture of his choices. His soliloquy starts off with him saying that in the mind of others as a noble prince he'd be looked up to better if he were to just stay alive and just suffer through the hardships. I think that Hamlet is thinking that suicide is the best choice at the time of his soliloquy but he doesn't think about the fact that "Hey, I am a prince." He completely focuses on his life troubles and not the big picture that later on in life he will be king after the death of Claudius.

         Hamlet continues on with his train of thought and gets into the benefits of death. For example, not having to live among people who only hurt you like his mother who has hurt him with the marriage and uncared for death of his father. His soliloquy reads, "To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,". This states that if he were to die everything that troubles him would be shoved off, it's as simple as that. Hamlet is understands that death ends life and that there is no going back from death but I believe he has hit that point of madness where he doesn't think straight and that's why he is running to suicide. 

         Hamlet asks a question of interest midway through his soliloquy which is, "For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,the pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,the insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes,when he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?" and this question is rhetorical. It states that no one in life would deal with obstacles such as being rejected by the one you love, people who are only useless in one's life, the pains that life brings, unjust authority, overly proud men and being taken advantage of when all you need a blade to make it all be gone. It is logical for someone going through major conflicts in life to feel there is no way out of it all. I have been in his shoes and if i was  a friend of his I'd suggest he thought about the benefits of living and encourage him to get help from someone that he feels has not betrayed him in life. Suicide should never be the answer.

         Hamlet also discusses the fact that once one dies there is nothing of death because no one ever has come back to speak about it. He wonders if life is worse than death or if death can end up being a worse experience full of evils that are worse than the ones he already was facing in life. Death scares me and I'd tell Hamlet that deciding whether or not to continue with life is a tough choice but that death is something unpredictable per say because we don't know what comes after. he himself says that running to death as an exit of life's problems is considered being a coward then why is he bothering even making that a choice?

        In conclusion, Hamlet has a decision to make and I would one-hundred percent tell him to continue with life and stay away from the thought of suicide because  life has good and bad to it but it always goes on and things can always be fixed one way or another.