“To Be Or Not To Be?” We see Hamlet ride an emotional roller coaster filled with grief, shame, anger, depression, and self doubt. Hamlets “to be or not to be” soliloquy demonstrates all of Hamlet’s emotions that he has been struggling with throughout the play. This soliloquy merely gives us a summation of these emotions in regards to his father’s death, his mother’s hasty remarriage, the ghost, and his own procrastination in …showed first 75 words of 1012 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1012 total…partially into madness. He now has a better understanding of who he really is and what he must do. He is starting to overcome his self-doubt and finally sees the course of action he must take. As the rest of the play unfolds we can see that slowly bit by bit he grows even more confident and focused on his goal of revenge and see him think of suicide less and less. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** none