Suicide is an important theme in Hamlet. Discuss how the play treats the idea of suicide morally, religiously, and aesthetically, paying particular attention to Hamlet’s two statements about suicide in his soliloquies: “ O, that this too, too, solid flesh would melt” and “To be or not to be.” How/Why does Shakespeare argue that although capable of suicide, most human being choose to live, despite the cruelty, pain, and injustice of the world. Why/How is Ophelia different?
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