Using Hamlet’s inner monologue, a reader can learn perhaps what Socrates was thinking. When Socrates was awaiting judgment from the jury perhaps he was thinking “to be or not to be, that is the question.” He like Hamlet had a difficult choice to make and while Hamlet eventually made the choice to avenge his father Socrates took the way of ending his own life at the will of the jury. What Socrates did is not considered cowardice as Hamlet’s suicide would have been considered, but rather an act to show that he will die for his beliefs. This man was passionate for what he stood for and new that knew that his philosophy was worth ending his
Using Hamlet’s inner monologue, a reader can learn perhaps what Socrates was thinking. When Socrates was awaiting judgment from the jury perhaps he was thinking “to be or not to be, that is the question.” He like Hamlet had a difficult choice to make and while Hamlet eventually made the choice to avenge his father Socrates took the way of ending his own life at the will of the jury. What Socrates did is not considered cowardice as Hamlet’s suicide would have been considered, but rather an act to show that he will die for his beliefs. This man was passionate for what he stood for and new that knew that his philosophy was worth ending his