(Don't) Be Hamlet

   Marisol Zepeda

 Monday, October 10, 2011

 Period 6

  

  Many people today all have inside conflicts about there life in which they do not know what's wrong or what's right. Hamlet from the play Hamlet by Shakespeare is a great example of those kind of people. He is in the middle of deciding whether he should commit suicide or just man up and deal with all his problems. In my opinion, if I was Hamlet, I would choose to man up and just deal with all the drama that is going on in my life.
  Committing suicide to me is not the best answer. Hamlet by choosing to do that would only end up losing the most valuable thing in life. This man is so religious too and of course if he decided to take his life away it'd be one of the greatest sins he has ever committed. Hamlet would end up in hell and pretty much be damned either way. Death to me just doesn't solve anything; it'll just most likely bring happiness to everybody since right now people are just worried about why Hamlet is depressed. In addition, if Hamlet decided to murder himself, King Claudius would pretty much win the war since Hamlet right now is his only enemy.
  The problem to me, I don't think is that big of a problem in which he should choose to die. He should man up! I'm the kind of person that believes in KARMA (what goes around comes back around). If King Claudius was really the one who killed King Hamlet then obviously he's going to get payback for what he did. To me something can't just happen like that and then not get something out of it. Something will end up happening to the person whether it's good or bad but in King Claudius' case, it'll most likely bad. Hamlet doesn't even have to dirty his hands with blood, something will happen to King Claudius eventually.
  Hamlet, he is a young man who I'm sure has a whole life ahead of him. He is a prince and can easily become successful. Yes he might care so much about his father and his death but I'm sure his father wouldn't want him to die. Hamlet is in love with Ophelia as it says in the play and to me if he really was in love with her then he should focus more on making their love happen than on trying to kill himself. Hamlet can grieve for his father but at the same time forget it little by little and move. He should just let things happen and eventually fall into place. This man  can do so much with his life; he doesn't necessarily have to stay where he is at now if he's unhappy, Hamlet should make choices of his own.
  Sometimes even if life gives us the worst problems ever we got to know how to deal with them and just look for different solutions not just go straight to committing suicide. Nobody said life was going to be easy; it's hard. Hamlet by choosing to take away his life is just trying to go the easy way out but doesn't really think about the positive outcome of his life if he were to stay alive.