Ophelia's Death In Hamlet Essay

In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, the death of the King hamlet caused a few problems with the royal family. King Hamlet’s death let Claudius to take King Hamlet’s throne. It also lead him to take Queen Gertrude’s hand in marriage. This situation caused Hamlet to hate his uncle and his mother. The death also caused him to feel thoughts of suicide, aloneness, and lack of confidence. The death of Polonious caused Ophelia’s craziness which lead to her unexplainable death. Hamlet’s thought irritating nature cause him to consider death and its most close difficulties. In Act 1 he is torn by sorrow and sadness from the death of his father and the marriage of his mother with Claudius. Because of this, he now looks at the world only for its evil and damage. He thought of the world this way so much that he considered suicide. “O, that this too solid flesh would melt/ Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d/ His canon gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!” Hamlet also thinks and contemplates suicide and the afterlife in his famous “To be or not to be” soliloquy. In the play he says the afterlife is “the undiscovered country from whose bourn/ No traveler returns” …show more content…
“That skull had a tongue in it and could sing once” When in face of Yorick’s skull, he observers the last physical change between life and death. Hamlet realizes and becomes captivated with the idea that death is the fair, final, and stable equalizer of men. “Though your fat king and your lean beggar is but/ variable service, two dishes, but to one table/ that’s the end.” Hamlet becomes intrigued with the natural cycle close death. “A man may fish with the worm that eat of a/ king, and cat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.” Hamlet finally finds peace with