Udvardi 1
Esther Udvardi
S.G.
English 12, Period 5
18 April 2017
Value of Life
“Ay, there’s the rub/ For in that sleep of death what dreams may come/ When we have shuffled off this mortal coil.” (Hamlet, Act III, Scene i, line 10,11). Hamlet asked one of the most popular questions in our time. Why should we suffer such hardships in our lives? We suffer and pull through these hardships because everyone values something other than just the principle of life itself. One can value life through their work, family, and the through the fear of the unknown. “Out there, his voice is still his voice- not a reasonable facsimile of it, but his.” (Jones,
15). Robert Ebert lost his mandible because of cancer, through this he lost his ability to eat,
drink, …show more content…
“Ebert doesn’t know what his last word were. He thinks he probably said goodbye to Chaz before one of his own trips into the operating room.” (Jones, 9). He did not get married til very late in his life, which made him finding Chaz that much more of a miracle. They both had fight their families because it was an interracial marriage, but they both just loved each other more for it. Ebert, even
Udvardi 2 going through all the cancer operations and the pain, kept wanting to pull through because of
Chaz.
Hamlet was almost the exact opposite of Ebert. Hamlet did not feel like he had anything to live for, that it would just be easier to die. The one thing stopping him was the fear of the unknown “To die, to sleep-/ To sleep- perchance to dream.” (Hamlet, Act III, Scene i. Line
9,10). People are only afraid to die because they have no idea what is on the other side.
No matter in which way one values life, there is always something the back of their mind saying to stay on earth. Every person is different and has had different upbringings to shape them to what they value in life. And it is no one's place to tell others what or how they should value their own
Esther Udvardi
S.G.
English 12, Period 5
18 April 2017
Value of Life
“Ay, there’s the rub/ For in that sleep of death what dreams may come/ When we have shuffled off this mortal coil.” (Hamlet, Act III, Scene i, line 10,11). Hamlet asked one of the most popular questions in our time. Why should we suffer such hardships in our lives? We suffer and pull through these hardships because everyone values something other than just the principle of life itself. One can value life through their work, family, and the through the fear of the unknown. “Out there, his voice is still his voice- not a reasonable facsimile of it, but his.” (Jones,
15). Robert Ebert lost his mandible because of cancer, through this he lost his ability to eat,
drink, …show more content…
“Ebert doesn’t know what his last word were. He thinks he probably said goodbye to Chaz before one of his own trips into the operating room.” (Jones, 9). He did not get married til very late in his life, which made him finding Chaz that much more of a miracle. They both had fight their families because it was an interracial marriage, but they both just loved each other more for it. Ebert, even
Udvardi 2 going through all the cancer operations and the pain, kept wanting to pull through because of
Chaz.
Hamlet was almost the exact opposite of Ebert. Hamlet did not feel like he had anything to live for, that it would just be easier to die. The one thing stopping him was the fear of the unknown “To die, to sleep-/ To sleep- perchance to dream.” (Hamlet, Act III, Scene i. Line
9,10). People are only afraid to die because they have no idea what is on the other side.
No matter in which way one values life, there is always something the back of their mind saying to stay on earth. Every person is different and has had different upbringings to shape them to what they value in life. And it is no one's place to tell others what or how they should value their own