To rest!

“To sleep, to die” these meanings are so close. What is that makes us think that death is sleep. Through life people wonder what is to be dead. Do we just disappear? Will we become spirits? What are we going to do to see in the other life? But what if people don’t believe in life after death? What if it is just nothing? Just a long-long sleep, but with no dreams to see?

The question of life and death is as lusting as the existence. We always wonder what is to come. We fear death. However, death is just a part of living. It is our end to come. If to consider death just sleeping, it does not look too scary. With the long years of heavy life, work, worries death is just a relive. People finally have a chance to rest. Death is not something we should fear.

Even Hamlet in his speech thinks about dieing as sleeping, slipping away from all the unfairness of life. However, suicide is a bad way to end life. It is unnatural for a person to kill himself. Death is going to come anyway, then why hurry it? If death is sleep then life is dream for death. To live is to collect the dreams to have in sleep of death.

Repetition

In the Act 1 scene 1 Shakespeare uses repetition to show the emotion. Repetition is a tool used to emphasize something that is important for readers’ attention. When Horatio, Marcellus and Bernardo see the ghost for the first time, they want it to speak. In line 51 Horatio says: “Stay! speak, speak! I charge thee, speak!” They come to the conclusion that the ghost looks like their dead king. They want to make the ghost to speak, but ghost stays silent.

By repeating the word “speak” three times in a row, Shakespeare wants readers to pay attention to the emotion with which the person is saying it. Each time the word has to be pronounced with a different intonation. Such intonation leads readers to the conclusion of desperation and fear that Horatio experiences by talking to the ghost. Shakespeare emphasizes that the ghost is an important figure in the play and that the information it carries is very significant to the characters.

Hamlet's certainty

Act 1, scene 4 in the play “Hamlet” is recognized like the only scene in which Hamlet is sure about his actions to follow the ghost. As we know Hamlet is still in mourning for his father, so his certain reaction could be evidence that he misses his father. Hamlet is lost in the assuming of what could actually happen to his father. He does not believe that his father died accidentally; therefore, the appearance of his father’s ghost may lead him to find the truth. In the line 45 Hamlet says: “King, father, royal Dane. O, answer me!” Hamlet is convinced that the ghost is his father. Hamlet is seeking for the answers to his questions, and the ghost is the one who can give them to Hamlet.

The other reason could be Hamlet’s contradictoriness because of his youth. In lines 63 and 64: “But do not go with it…No, by no means.”, Horatio and Marcellus are trying to convince Hamlet not to follow the ghost. However, Hamlet still follows him. It could be that Hamlet just goes against the words of his friends. He does not want to follow anybody’s orders, so he does what he is told in total reverse.