In play “Hamlet” by
William Shakespeare, Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy express his
questions about what one experiences after death. Hamlet is conflicted if he
should continue living and suffering or kill himself and put an end to his
suffering. He decides that he should continue to live on, a noble decision,
because he doesn’t know what death may bring. Comparing death to the sleep,
Hamlet characterizes death as everlasting nightmare, which can be seen in
third and fourth line: “The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No
traveller returns, puzzles the will”/ “And makes us rather bear those ills we
have / Than fly to others that we know not of?”
