Bittering The Dust In Hamlet
Biting the Dust
How could a boy who just entered into the game of life want to quit so soon? How could a boy with a whole life ahead of him pack up his bags so easily and walk right out the doors? How could a boy so young and so pure be mellowed with the poisonous act of suicide? All these puzzling questions revolve around the shocking truth of young Hamlet, the truth that could potentially end the life of Hamlet in a blink of an eye. Hamlet’s attraction to death dives way deeper than what he exposes to the world.
The young man’s deadly motive is first revealed in his soliloquy when Hamlet wishes his flesh would just melt away; that he would just fade away from the world and be forgotten. He gets disappointed and annoyed that God made suicide a sin. If young Hamlet were given a rope or a sharp object at that exact moment, he would have been tempted …show more content…
Their decomposition erases their identities from them. All are now just dust and dirt on the earth. Hamlet realizes that everyone is going to die at some point and his or her fate will be the same no matter if they die today or die tomorrow, or even how significant they were (5.1.214-223). Hamlet now begins to look at mortality optimistically. Suicide is internal, it is never shown fully. Sometimes it comes from the silent ones, sometimes it comes from the ones with the biggest smiles, and sometimes it comes from the least expected. For Hamlet, he is battling the toughest internal war and no one really knows what’s truly going on. He is on a cliff, on the edge of jumping off, waiting for someone to stop him, just waiting. Next he’s falling, just falling, but there's no one there to catch him. Hamlet’s true hopes are that one day he might find beauty in the resting of his soul, the kind of beautiful peace that he never
How could a boy who just entered into the game of life want to quit so soon? How could a boy with a whole life ahead of him pack up his bags so easily and walk right out the doors? How could a boy so young and so pure be mellowed with the poisonous act of suicide? All these puzzling questions revolve around the shocking truth of young Hamlet, the truth that could potentially end the life of Hamlet in a blink of an eye. Hamlet’s attraction to death dives way deeper than what he exposes to the world.
The young man’s deadly motive is first revealed in his soliloquy when Hamlet wishes his flesh would just melt away; that he would just fade away from the world and be forgotten. He gets disappointed and annoyed that God made suicide a sin. If young Hamlet were given a rope or a sharp object at that exact moment, he would have been tempted …show more content…
Their decomposition erases their identities from them. All are now just dust and dirt on the earth. Hamlet realizes that everyone is going to die at some point and his or her fate will be the same no matter if they die today or die tomorrow, or even how significant they were (5.1.214-223). Hamlet now begins to look at mortality optimistically. Suicide is internal, it is never shown fully. Sometimes it comes from the silent ones, sometimes it comes from the ones with the biggest smiles, and sometimes it comes from the least expected. For Hamlet, he is battling the toughest internal war and no one really knows what’s truly going on. He is on a cliff, on the edge of jumping off, waiting for someone to stop him, just waiting. Next he’s falling, just falling, but there's no one there to catch him. Hamlet’s true hopes are that one day he might find beauty in the resting of his soul, the kind of beautiful peace that he never