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    Hamlet experiences several moral dilemmas throughout the play. The first is suicidal thoughts after his father's death and his mother's betrayal. The second is whether to kill his uncle Claudius, who Hamlet believes murdered his father. Hamlet procrastinates taking action due to religious beliefs against suicide and killing, and uncertainty about whether he can trust the ghost who told him of the murder. Hamlet's most famous quote "To be, or not to be" reflects his internal struggle between continuing to live in misery or committing suicide and facing the unknown of the afterlife, which he fears may be hell. Ultimately, Hamlet's desire for revenge overtakes his religious beliefs and stains his soul.

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    Hamlet experiences several moral dilemmas throughout the play. The first is suicidal thoughts after his father's death and his mother's betrayal. The second is whether to kill his uncle Claudius, who Hamlet believes murdered his father. Hamlet procrastinates taking action due to religious beliefs against suicide and killing, and uncertainty about whether he can trust the ghost who told him of the murder. Hamlet's most famous quote "To be, or not to be" reflects his internal struggle between continuing to live in misery or committing suicide and facing the unknown of the afterlife, which he fears may be hell. Ultimately, Hamlet's desire for revenge overtakes his religious beliefs and stains his soul.

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    Analysis of Shakespeare's well known character and his dlemmas. Literature

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    Hamlet experiences several moral dilemmas throughout the play. The first is suicidal thoughts after his father's death and his mother's betrayal. The second is whether to kill his uncle Claudius, who Hamlet believes murdered his father. Hamlet procrastinates taking action due to religious beliefs against suicide and killing, and uncertainty about whether he can trust the ghost who told him of the murder. Hamlet's most famous quote "To be, or not to be" reflects his internal struggle between continuing to live in misery or committing suicide and facing the unknown of the afterlife, which he fears may be hell. Ultimately, Hamlet's desire for revenge overtakes his religious beliefs and stains his soul.

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    Hamlet experiences several moral dilemmas throughout the play. The first is suicidal thoughts after his father's death and his mother's betrayal. The second is whether to kill his uncle Claudius, who Hamlet believes murdered his father. Hamlet procrastinates taking action due to religious beliefs against suicide and killing, and uncertainty about whether he can trust the ghost who told him of the murder. Hamlet's most famous quote "To be, or not to be" reflects his internal struggle between continuing to live in misery or committing suicide and facing the unknown of the afterlife, which he fears may be hell. Ultimately, Hamlet's desire for revenge overtakes his religious beliefs and stains his soul.

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    Hamlet’s dilemmas

    What makes Hamlet’s quote ‘’To be, or not to be: that is the question’’ so popular nowadays?
    Regardless of how many people have actually read the piece of the same name by Shakespeare, many of
    us do understand the basic meaning behind the quote, and that it – doubting and hesitating. It is the
    quote we use so frequently as means of highlighting the insecurities about a certain matter. Well,
    Shakespeare’s Hamlet is not that different or far.

    The main character experiences many dilemmas throughout the piece, and as we continue
    reading, we certainly develop impatience, but at the same time, we are blessed with the common sense,
    and therefore cannot judge the character that severely for being a master procrastinator.

    The first dilemma we notice Hamlet is experiencing are suicidal thoughts. ”O that this too too solid flesh
    would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon ‘gainst
    self-slaughter!” soliloquy portraits his tearing soul that is suffering the loss of his father and the betrayal
    of his mother. The betrayal is mirrored in his mother marrying his uncle shortly after his father’s death.
    Why such reaction, we could ask ourselves. Hamlet is facing a moral dilemma, because what he is
    experiencing in his physical life, the influence of other people on his mind, is tough since he is very
    religious and has no capacity of understanding without judging the persona around him. The same
    religious concept stops him from committing a suicide initially.

    The main moral dilemma of the piece is whether Hamlet should kill Claudius, his uncle and step-father.
    Enraged, he still stays loyal to his procrastination. As if he was Virgo. Detailing, planning in depth,
    deeply contemplating and then still doubting. The aforementioned dilemma mainly exist because Hamlet
    is unsure if he could trust a ghost, and in the approaching of the ghost he shows great strength and goes
    beyond his belief and that stays the crucial moment for his revenge.

    The most famous quote ‘’To be, or not to be’’ exceeds the basic understanding, and we discover that it
    might be yet another suicidal try. It’s his soul screaming quietly inside telling that this life might not be
    worthy the misery, and would rather fall asleep. There we see that his overall procrastination isn’t just
    him being unsure of what he should do, but why and what after. His innate fear is the afterlife, and
    whether he would end up in hell.

    Now, from today’s viewpoint, the same fear is innate to most of us, and it is the fear of the
    unknown. Religious beliefs differ and it definitely is not something tangible to people. Still, Hamlet
    being a religious person, should have known better than raging and suffering. Religion was supposed to
    be his salvation, forgiveness. What he did was sort of cynical, since he took the matter in his hands, as if
    he represented the God he so much feared. And exactly there he stayed blind and did what the hell in
    him was longing to do. He let revenge take over and permanently stained his soul.

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