Moral Doubt in Hamlets Soliloquy - To be or not to be... Essays

The Moral Question in Hamlets Soliloquy - To be or not to be... The major question in To be or not to be cannot be suicide. If it were, as many have noted, it would be dramatically irrelevant. Hamlet is no longish sunk in the depths of melancholy, as he was in his first soliloquy. He has been roused to action and has just discovered how to test the Ghosts words. When we last saw him, only flipper minutes before, he was anticipating the nights performance, and in only a few moments we shall see him eagerly instructing the players and excitedly telling Horatio of his plan. To have him enter at this point debating whether or not to kill himself would be completely inconsistent with both the character and the movement of the plot. The metaphors all suggest that Hamlets choice is betw...