So, Hamlet has his litany of complaints. Let's boil them down into a really compressed form:
Is it better to deal with all of the bullshit in life, or to just kill yourself. It's definitely a better idea to kill yourself, but what if killing yourself sends you straight to Hell? Going to Hell for all of eternity would definitely be worse than dealing with this crappy life for another fifty or sixty years, so, out of my own cowardice, I'll choose to stay alive in this world rather than risk eternal torment in the next.
Let's look at where all this torment of Hamlet's comes from, and how much of our life is actually the torment that Hamlet said that it is. After that we should try to ascertain whether dying would actually be better than putting up with life.
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Showing posts with label Hamlet. Show all posts
24 October 2011
21 October 2011
Never too far off, vol2, part 1, the one where Marcus Aurelius responds to Hamlet
I've always thought that Hamlet was one of the most annoying characters in all of Shakespeare. How would Marcus Aurelius respond to some petty princeling beating himself over the head over whether he should commit suicide or continue living his "miserable" life?
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