Monday, December 7, 2009

Translate Hamlet

To die or not to die, that is the question.
Is it nobler to suffer with things that come your
way or to fight against these troubles and put an end to
them once and for all? Dying is sleeping. That's all it is.
To sleep you put an end to all the heartaches and natural
troubles life brings you. Dying is something to be wished
for! To die, to sleep. To sleep, maybe to dream. Ahh..
but here's the thing. To sleep because of death, who knows
what dreams may come when we have put all of our troubles
from humanity behind us. This is unknown to us. This is
why we suffer the life of humanity for so long. For if we were
to die who would put up with all of life's problems. Abuse from
the upper class, the proud man's arrogance, the pangs of
unreturned love, the inadequacy of the law, the disrespect of
people in office, and the corruptness that poor people have to
deal with because of the wealthy. Why do we go through this
when we could easily just end life with a small knife? Why do
we choose to bear this hard, corrupted life...perhaps it's because
of fear of what comes after death. Death, the unknown world where
no one returns from puzzles the human mind. It makes us deal with
the hardships of humanity instead of flying off to a
mysterious new world. It's this fear of dying that makes
us cowards, we are constantly thinking and it is this
fear that overcomes our wonder making us weak.
These motives that should be carried out are
skewed, and stop being actions for once and all.
Now is time to be quiet, the beautiful Ophelia is coming.
Nymph, hopefully when I pray, my sins will be forgiven.

This soliloquy shows us Hamlet's thoughts on whether it is better to die or to live. He makes is seem like after one dies, you will be in peace. You will escape all of the corruptiveness that humanity brings you. Hamlet speaking of all of this adversity makes me think he has not only witnessed it, but also been through this suffering himself. He makes death or the afterlife sound like a mysterious, unknown place that can only be better than the life one is living in now.

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