Hamlet's Views On Death

Hamlets Views on Death Death is a part of life. Every person at some point in their life is faced with the death of a loved one as well as their own death. Although death is a part of life, it is a very sad and scary thing. When being faced with your own death or the death of a loved one, everyone handles it differently. In Hamlet many of the characters deal with death. They are faced with the deaths of loved ones or are responsible for the deaths of others as well as themselves.

Through the entire play Hamlets total fixation is on death. Hamlets fascination of death was what caused him to risk everything. Hamlet is the main character whose focus is on death, but he is not the only one. Death is everywhere in this play. Other characters

Act three scene three is when Hamlet goes to kill Claudius, but finds him praying

Adams 2 in the church and does not kill him. From the beginning Hamlets goal is to kill Claudius for the wrong doing of his father. He wants to send Claudius to hell but realizes that it wouldn’t be right to kill a man in prayer and risk his own soul by doing so. A slice of Hamlet’s inner anger is seen when he says “And now ill do’t: and so he goes to heaven: and so am I revenged. That would be scanned” (3.3.75-76). This anger he has built up from finding out the truth about his father finally breaks and he kills Claudius. Hamlet goes on after this to seem like he is insane and goes on to make the whole idea of him killing Claudius a joke to the courtiers.

Death is also included in the play acted inside this play. The play “mousetrap” is about the death of the original king which is Hamlets father. This is part of Hamlets seeking revenge of his father’s death. While struggling with the truth and revenge of his father’s death, Hamlet also struggles with the thought of killing himself. Hamlet is so obsessed with “death” that he even considers taking his own life. He shows this when saying “to be or not to

This murder is what sparks all of the hate, anger and grief in the characters. It is because of this death that other deaths occur. Everything in this play revolves around death. Death is main theme in the play and it leads to another scene after each death.

Death is a reoccurring theme to this play. Each death has a meaning and a previous reason in doing so. Also each one sparks another scene in which the play continues. The hatred Hamlet possesses for finding out what really happened to his father drives him to finding the truth and in doing so these deaths happen.

All of the characters total fixations throughout the entire play are focused on death. Their fascination of death is what causes them to risk everything. The characters know that killing is wrong but instead they kill out of revenge and grief. Death is a part of life and every one handles it differently. All of the characters handle death in their own way either by taking their own life or someone else’s life. The entire play revolves around the theme of death, and even ends with death. The characters become so infatuated by death that is consumes them and kills