The value or the meaning of life has been a popular topic in many philosophical discussions. People come up with different answer for it too. Albert Camus, a French nihilist philosopher, noted that, “as an existing person, human use of the value and meaning of life to convince themselves: human existence is not absurd” (Tavris 13). The value of life is individuals prove their life is worthwhile, and the relationship build with other can make individuals feel they are being needed, therefor they recognize life is not worthless.
Life has its internal value. That is the ability to do things to make them motivated and enjoy, which has nothing to do with other people. In Hamlet's Soliloquy, Hamlet is pessimistic and thinks life is being torment. He also view death is a way to end of struggle:
...To die, to sleep--
No more--and by a sleep to say we end
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Which in term of individuals’s life is how they give influence to others who live in this world as well. People can’t make life worth anything if they are not interact with anyone. Just like money is not worth anything when there is nothing to exchange. In the interview of Roger Ebert, a famous film critic who lost his lower jaw bone due to cancer, he expressed his believe of the value of life as, “...we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier…” (The California 54). He believes that life is worth well when a person make himself happy and others around us happy. After his cancer surgery he lost his ability to eat, drink, and speak, but he still choose to be positive and this influence himself and the people around him. This can not help his lost abilities, but it can make his wife, his friends, who cares about him less worry about him. Like he mentioned, “...that is about the best we can do(54)”. The value of our life is how built by the relationship with
``To be or not to be``, a popular quote of Hamlet shows the manifestation of existentialism of reason in his world. A world in which he is the prince of a country whose throne has been taken over with blood by his very own uncle. This world filled with deception is the perfect body for the thoughts of one’s self worth to thrive. A world that once held a respective perspective of the throne, only to become a cesspool of treachery and incestious relations.
Everyone, except Hamlet, sees life as this wonderful concept. Hamlet, however, is struggling with his inner demons. His view of life can best be seen when he says “whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer/The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,”(Shakespeare III I 65-66). Hamlet is going through a serious depression in this line when he debates on if life is truly worth living. Is life worth the hardships it gives, Hamlet is surrounded by happy people in his kingdom and he has never been more miserable.
Steve Jobs is trying to say that you should live every day like it is your last. He knew his life had value to him and his family. He felt like life was worth living even though once in a while a hard choice would come along to toughen his life. Making a choice is very hard, but when making a choice it should be one that you will not regret later in life. Making choices is one of the hardest things in life so you must see all the good and all the bad to the outcome of your options. Live everyday like it is your last. Ebert says that life is a very precious thing. Hamlet wants to die, but him not knowing what is on the other side scares so he decides to live. Even though Ebert had to get surgery, he got through it and learned to still live his life with no regrets.
An understanding of William Shakespeare’s philosophies reinforces the meaning of the human condition found in the play Hamlet. The revenge tragedy is an example in the exploration of good versus evil, deceit, madness, inter-turmoil, and utter existence. Shakespeare, fascinated by the human mind and human nature, clearly and completely illustrates the meaning of “self.” Hamlet is a drama that examines one’s personal identity. From the beginning of the story atop the castle when the guards enter the platform to the conclusion of the performance as Hamlet lies, dying in Horatio’s arms every characters’ psychological type is
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson-
to each individual. This idea of putting a value on human life is almost laughable, how is a human life measured? by dollars? by valuable metals?
Someone who might value life a little differently is Hamlet. In Hamlet by Shakespeare, Hamlet's “To be, or not to be” soliloquy, demonstrates how much Hamlet values his own life while contemplating whether or not to commit suicide. He does not value
... value ordering. Goldman says life does not hold value in itself; instead most individuals derive the meaning of life from their accomplishments and happiness to the point where individuals may even risk their health and lives to attain those. As established before about paternalism in a medical contest, it is only the patient’s true values that can be primary determinants of their futures.
Hamlet views his existing life in a negative manner, and he sees that the only way to escape his misery is to take his own life. A thought of self-slaughter is enough to devalue one’s life, and throughout the entirety of the play it is the only way Hamlet values his own life. To live or not to live, that is Hamlet’s only question, while the value of his own life is not in
The basis of one 's mortality and the complications of life and death are talked about from the opening of Hamlet. In the mist of his father 's death, Hamlet is having a hard time not thinking about and considering the meaning of life and how life ends. Many questions emerge as the story progresses. There was so many question that Hamlet contemplated. He was constantly worrying that is he revenged on his fathers’ death then what would happen. He would ask himself questions like, what happens when and how you die? Do kings go to heaven? If I kill, will I go to heaven?
Also stating that ‘Here, this gets right at the distinction between a disease-centered and a patient- or human-centered model of care, and here is where caring becomes a creative, generative.” Basically saying see the positives in still be alive or still being able to move. There are plenty of people that have it even worse than you even if you cannot imagine that it’s true. So always see the good in life live it to the best of your ability. You only live once , so have
The value of life is a very controversial topic. It has been brought up many times throughout history in interviews, poem, stories, and even class. Many people have different opinions on what the value of life is and what it is worth. Unfortunately there is no denotative definition. It is connotative, which can only be defined through personal experiences and beliefs. Many highly intelligent people have different views on the value of life and express it in whatever way they can.
In his tragedy Hamlet, William Shakespeare explores and analyzes the concept of mortality and the inevitability of death through the development of Hamlet’s understanding and ideology regarding the purpose for living. Through Hamlet’s obsessive fascination in understanding the purpose for living and whether death is the answer, Shakespeare analyzes and interprets the meaning of different elements of mortality and death: The pain death causes to others, the fading of evidence of existence through death, and the reason for living. While due to the inevitable and unsolvable mystery of the uncertainty of death, as no being will ever empirically experience death and be able to tell the tale, Shakespeare offers an answer to the reason for living through an analysis of Hamlet’s development in understanding death.
Many individuals have different aspects as to how life should be valued. Some individuals live life a day at a time while attempting to make the most as if their last breath was upcoming. In a Stanford Commencement in 2005, Apple CEO Steve Jobs quo...
In Shakespeare’s Hamlet, a very clear and moral order is established as Hamlet completes his journey through the phases which define a Shakespearean tragedy. The play begins with Hamlet seeing his father’s ghost. He finds out that his father had been murdered by his uncle Claudius. After Hamlets encounter with the ghost, it is his wish to avenge his father. This causes all other moral dilemmas in the play, and is what defines the plays moral order. As the play continues Hamlet is always trying to remain morally in the right, always taking the precaution to remain so. As the play goes on, and Hamlet learns that Claudius now trying to kill him continues attempting to right the original wrong, and he does succeed at the end with Claudius’ death. Hamlets words “thus bad begins, and worse remains behind” (Act III, Scene IV) illustrate the moral order. The actions against him were wrong, but to a lesser extent, so was his revenge.