What's Hamlet to you?

Hamlet represents to me the indecencies and the falsities that are in our everyday lives. The play is centred around the theme of death, and constantly hints at the morbid details of the Danish kingdom. Furthermore, Shakespeare includes incestuous events, psychosis, and murder. Despite all this, Hamlet is able to illustrate that life can and is worth living, and that one must maintain hope throughout.

Hamlet is a hero, but an imperfect one at that. He lives in a dangerously dysfunctional world, and he himself seems to be quite dysfunctional. The play focuses on, and is quite famous for Hamlet’s inability to decide, “To be, or not to be”, and on his tendency to over think everything that happens around him, “The undiscovered country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will.” The fact that even though Hamlet may be a tragic hero does not seem to effect the fact that Hamlet is the protagonist, and is reasonably able to convince the audience that though life is dreary, or torturous, it is still very much worth living.