Shakespeare likely wrote Hamlet’s soliloquy using inclusive language and philosophical concepts when discussing suicide because during the Elizabethan Era when the play was written, suicide was considered a mortal sin and the audience may have viewed Hamlet as a …show more content…
When Hamlet drops his guard and voices the thoughts that have been plaguing him and keeping him from taking any sort of action towards the goal he promised he would achieve, it brings the audience back to seeing him in a sympathetic light. While it is not necessary to have a sympathetic protagonist to tell a good story, as the anti-hero trope is quite popular, it is beneficial and it seems Shakespeare takes continuous steps back in this directions when his protagonists stray from the audience’s favor.
The broad philosophical approach of this passage is still celebrated today because as in Elizabethan times, many of us are still confronted with “the pangs of despised love”, “th’ oppressor’s wrong”, and “the law’s delay”, even if we have never experienced the situation of our uncle murdering our father then promptly marrying our mother, and our father’s ghost coming back to tell us to get revenge. Every reader can identify with at least one of the reasons Hamlet gives for why people choose to “bear the whips and scorns of