Sacrifice In Hamlet

In William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, the protagonist, Hamlet is obsessed with the idea of death, and throughout the play he ponders death from numerous perspectives, in numerous times. He isn’t the only character obsessed with mortality, a lot of deaths or thoughts of it go on in the play. It is the death of Hamlet’s father that affected him in so many ways, and led him to a trauma with the topic. Overthinking made him do horrible things to the important people for him, demanding revenge and reacting impulsively. The meaning of life and the eventual ending are significant doubts in all characters, but mainly in Hamlet.

"To be or not to be: that is the question: / whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer / the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles / and, by opposing end them. To die, to sleep / no more" is the beginning of a really famous soliloquy of Shakespeare's play, spoken by Hamlet in Act III, scene i (58–90). In this scene Prince Hamlet highly contemplates death and suicide. Is it better to be alive or death? That’s all he thinks about, not
O God, God, / How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world!” (Act One scene two, ll. 129-34). Hamlet is disgusted that his mother has married Claudius, his father’s brother, right after his father’s death. He is completely disappointed of his mother since he thought she was truly in love with his father and was proven wrong. He says that the world he’s living in is weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable, so considers suicide as an alternative, before realizing it’s against his religion. From this point and on, Hamlet starts acting different, as he turns into a impulsive and hater