Hello Morningrise, I've underlined some parts you may want to look at again: Morningrise Commentary on "To Be or not to Be" In this soliloquy Hamlet sparks an internal philosophical debate on the advantages and disadvantages of existence, and whether it is one's right to end his or her own life. He first asks thoughtfully to himself whether it is nobler to bear the miseries of life or to take arms against them; but since both passive and active resistance is doomed to failure, he regards death as a mean to end one’s sorrows once and for all. He sees death in a Medieval perspective, as physical liberation from the prison of the body (the “mortal coil” ); but he also symbolizes the doubt of the Renaissance man, concerning the after life.
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MorningriseCommentary on "To Be or not to Be"
In this soliloquy Hamlet sparks an internal philosophical debate on the advantages and disadvantages of existence, and whether it is one's right to end his or her own life. He first asks thoughtfully