Hamlet Flaws

Throughout Shakespeare’s career as a playwright, he has written about many complex and well thought characters who actually have something they want to say and how the characters’ view life. None however, as interesting as Hamlet from the play Hamlet. The character of Hamlet is interesting because although he was born from status, he does not have all the power. Hamlet is also well aware of his flaws and his flaws are not that obvious to the audience. The most engaging scenes are the ones where Hamlet is alone speaking truths about his thoughts on suicide and humanity itself. Although Hamlet and his thoughts might seem like the thoughts of sad teenager contemplating suicide, from his logical standpoint on to suicide to his ideas of human beings in death, Hamlet gives an interesting perspective on the physical idea of death and the logical part of suicide.
This is not him thinking about committing suicide because in his mind that option is not allowed due to religion, it is just him complaining about the current state of his life and the marriage of his Uncle to his Mother. Hamlets line in the play “Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God, God!”(1.2.131-132) shows his dislike towards that God made it a sin to commit suicide. Hamlet is already at a spiraling low due to his father dying and his mother getting remarried. The fact that his parents are also going to make him move back tears Hamlet up because he does not want to spend that much time with them. His first soliloquy is not as much about humanity and thoughts of suicide as his other speeches, but rather it sets up the turmoil that Hamlet feels