Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy from the play represents his mental struggle on whether he should continue living, or if he should just end his life. He also is asking to be prayed for. This shows that he is looking for hope from anywhere possible. He doesn’t want to give up, but at the same time he’s tired of fighting the controversy and drama that fills his life.
Hamlet’s life is FILLED with problems, and its because of these problems that make him feel like his life is hopeless and there’s no way out of these conflicts he’s faced with. If Hamlet wasn’t a coward then he would fix these problems that are right in front of him, rather than consider killing himself as a resolution. Suicide is not the answer at all, but if he was to fight Claudius and take the throne back for his father, then that will fix all the problems in which Hamlet is faced with.
Hamlet’s emotions are very unstable and quite frankly they are all over the place. Every thought in his mind is filled with the wrong that is going on around him and in his life, and because of this he feels as if theres no way out. He feels trapped, and this is what causes him to crumble and fold to this pressure of avenging his father. Suicide seems like the easy way out to Hamlet, but what he doesn’t understand is the fact that NOTHING will become any easier to him... HE’LL BE DEAD!
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