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The Struggle With Suicide In William Shakespeare's Hamlet

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The second problem we can see in Hamlet for Hamlet is, him struggling with his faith. We can see that this could be an answer to the first problem, the reason we should live or not. Because the fear of the unknown is always in the back of your mind. Hamlet straits, “But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns.” (III,i,85-87) But the thought of something from the other side, something after death. This is what we are scared of at the core if we do not follow through with suicide. Why is that thought provoking so much of a problem for Hamlet and so many more individuals, well I believe Lauren Jarvis said it best, “There’s something so uneasy about the feeling of uncertainty that

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