Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Value Of Life In Hamlet

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Value of Life Essay This Essay will be about what the title is the value of life we will be exploring this from the point of view from three different stories first Hamlet which is about basically killing yourself, second is Ebert which is no matter how hard your life just keeps pushing yourself lastly we have Feinstein which is about struggling with your human self and lawyer self. As we know many factors can affect how an individual values life, personally I believe that life should be for creatures with sentient thought processes and can think for themselves like humans, dogs, and cats and so many more animals. However not for things like bugs or small things like ants or flies.
First, we will summarize the play Hamlet and its take
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He simply wants to die just end it all end all the pain and misery he is experiencing with a single action of a blade but he doesn't why. Well the reason he decides to not kill himself is that he is truly afraid of what is after death he thinks why don’t the poor people just end it all since they go through so much every day. Which is when he figures out that it's quite simple he's afraid of what comes after death just like everyone else.
For the Hamlet Soliloquy I made an opinion on his value of life and think that he is wrong but also right what I mean is that yes he’s right that if you are religious then, of course, you will be terrified of what happens after your demise will you go to heaven or hell so we try to keep that from happening for a long time. What he was wrong about is that not everyone decides to kill them self when times are going tough like with the poor people sure they have it tough but they know that one day maybe years from now their lives will get better so they will do everything in their power to
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What I admire about him is the way he took his near-death experiences by coming to the realization that “ Death is a huge reminder for him to keep doing what he wanted to every day and appreciate the little things”. My opinion on his value of life is that he is 100% right by to just to keep living like it's your last day on earth like he said to cherish the small things in life because you don't know when it will all come to an end. He never gave up and kept doing his job even when he could have died he fought death to the end and that's what everyone should do what you love and don't waste time. Last but not least we will summarize the article What is the value of a human life by kenneth Feinstein. This article is about a Washington attorney that specializes in alternative dispute resolution or for this instance life insurance. Since he was the lawyer for all the 9/11 families he was faced with a situation on what is an individual life worth? As he was talking to the victims families that were all different people that had come from all walks of life one was an Stockbroker, waiter, policeman and a firefighter. He began to question his moral side and his legal side by at first he would

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