Analyzing Hamlet

People become obsessed with just about anything that intrigues them. After learning of his fathers’ murder, Hamlet becomes obsessed with the idea about death, life, mankind, and remorse towards women. This allows him to behave harshly towards his loved ones with his wild speech and actions. He has developed questions about the afterlife, about the wisdom of suicide, and what happens to a body when it dies. Hamlets main obsession is death. He thinks about …

…heir to." Yet he questions what is to become of him in the afterlife. Will his pain end? This makes people submit to the suffering of their livs rather than go to another state of existence, which might be even more miserable. Th fear of the afterlife postpones his actions and leads to morality. "Conscience does make cowards of us all...thus the native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with pale cast of thought."