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[safariprincess2]

there has been a recent arise in existentialist philosophy in the live journal community- so here we go. do your worst.

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[jollygoodtime]

you know this passage is often analyzed as Hamlet thinking about suicide. But really - why would he be thinking about suicide? He has no reason, he's no depressed, he may be mad but he's just. It's really a contemplation on his sanity, and the afterlife of his father.

so....do you wanna talk?

[mosdefgeoff]

Besides his mom being nailed by his uncle who murdered his father, a feeling that he can get no real justice, watching his relationship with Ophelia slip away while she tells him she doesn’t love him, his two best friends betraying him for money that the his again wicked uncle gives them, no one seeming to want to help him with the mental anguish of losing ones parent a mere two months past, and everyone blaming his irrationality on insanity, I dunno suicide seems rather likely, however, I think your right. Hamlet was dead set on killing Claudius since his first soliuqy and that’s what his ghost of a father told him to do so suicide wasn’t an option. Either way it’s a good soliquy just often misinterpreted with the graveyard act, as hamlet holds no skull in this portion of the play.

I cant spell soliquy...

Is the idea that dying would be nice yet while dead you cant dream, some continue pointlessly while some continue for fear of the afterlife, they know that in life there is problems but worry that the afterlife could be worse?

[safariprincess2]

i do not want to commit suicide and kim: you raise a good point. he should not be thinking about suicide. he is still young and he could fix his problems in a more appropriate manner. it is a contemplation on his sanity and to see what the afterlife of his father