What Is Hamlet's Perception Of Humanity

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Hamlet's Humanity
Humanity is described to be the human race in their accordance or the societal factors made to determine one's humanness. Humanity in itself is subjective, its standards changing from one mind to another's. In all, humanity is the general reality that is established by the plentiful minds of different clusters of individuals and the individuals thereof. Hamlet, the vigilant and realistic protagonist, explains the flawed humanity that surrounds him. He sees the flawed perfection that sways through each character and the rising aura that sets the norms that society is to glorify and execute. Hamlet tells the hidden messages and veracity behind the riches and glory, debts and rags, and the dwellers who seek to be neither nor
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Hamlet exclaims how no one is superior or inferior in the afterlife, so do not think too highly of oneself.
Kiara, an aspiring writer and novelist, explains the way he views Hamlet's perception of humanity. Kiara says regardless of how high or low one is on the food chain, one is nothing at the end of the day. Kiara states how Hamlet sees class or position as nonsense and that is inevitable for all. He tells how Hamlet sees how all of humanity will be the earth in which they inhabited and just food for one next ones to conquer.
I agree with Kiara's view on Hamlet's mindset and statement. Hamlet views the setting and people around them as all the same people. Death will surely overcast their lives and what remains will only feed into the soil that the next conqueror reigns over. Hamlet continuously advocates the idea that everyone is just fuel for the next group of people after them. © 2016 SparkNotes LLC "To be, or not to be? That is the question—Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep—No more—and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to—’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep. To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause.
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They bluntly disrespects her by implying her death was not as holy as others, and made a definite conclusion she shouldn't be given proper burial. Hamlet was disgusted by the way people saw death and how one had to die a "certain way," to be remembered, as if life was merely a victorious or unsuccessful board game. He saw how they viewed one's death as if one was a pawn or queen. He saw how humanity only wanted to acknowledge the surface of someone and their life, rather that look deep in what their life held. Hamlet saw humanity to be ignorant to not only life, but death as

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