FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Angels prevent them and ease their suffering.
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They don’t want to become ghosts wandering the earth.
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They are afraid of what the afterlife might be like.
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They are afraid of the physical pain of dying.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet seriously contemplates suicide, but decides against it, mainly because it is a mortal sin against God. Hamlet continues to say that most of humanity would commit suicide and escape the hardships of life, but do not because they are unsure of what awaits them in the after life.
Detailed explanation-2: -"To be, or not to be” is the opening phrase of a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called “nunnery scene” of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, weighing the pain and unfairness of life against the alternative, which might be worse.
Detailed explanation-3: -Because suicide is a mortal sin So while Hamlet knows that there is life after death (as any Christian at this time would), he is afraid that his fate would be much worse than his father’s one.
Detailed explanation-4: -Summary of Hamlet’s First Soliloquy He bemoans the fact that he cannot commit suicide and explains in lines 335-336 that “self-slaughter” is not an option because it is forbidden by God.