Throughout Shakespeare's plays, the maintenance of identity is a very common conflict, as shown in Hamlet. In this play, Shakespeare portrayed the young Hamlet and conveyed two sides to him. On the one hand, he shows his crazy behavior towards his family, and on the other hand, he decides what he does right or wrong according to what he sees. The play is full of conflicts: one is identity, which shows all the characters in their own different arguments. We also see the problems of lack of self-confidence, misjudgment and betrayal. -Submitted by imran.

Unlike Hamlet's first two major monologues, the third and most famous speech seems to be dominated by reason rather than fanaticism. Unable to do anything but wait for the plan of "grasping the king's conscience" to be completed, Hamlet triggered an internal philosophical debate about the pros and cons of survival and whether it is a person's right to end his own life. Some scholars limit Hamlet's discussion to whether he should end his life. However, there is no place in the speech to connect it with Hamlet's case. He uses pronouns' we' and' we', and indefinite pronouns' who', which is an impersonal infinitive. He explicitly talked about "all of us", talked about what the "body" is, and talked about the pain that "we" suffered at the hands of "time" or "fate"-which by the way showed what Hamlet meant by "existence". Hamlet asked all depressed souls such a question-which is more noble, to live miserably or to end a person's sadness with a wave of his hand? He knows that if death is like dreamless sleep, the answer is undoubtedly "yes". Hamlet's "friction" or obstacle is the fear of "the dream may come" (74), that is, "the fear of something after death" (86). Hamlet knows very well that suicide is condemned by the church as an unforgivable sin.

Hamlet's monologue was interrupted by Ophelia who was praying. Hamlet called her a "fairy", which was a common court address during the Renaissance. Some critics think Hamlet's greetings are unnatural and cold manners, and he asks her to remember that he is ironic in her prayers. However, others claimed that Hamlet, who emerged from his intense moment of personal reflection, sincerely begged the gentle and innocent Ophelia to pray for him.

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