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Suicide is an important theme in Hamlet

Suicide is an important theme in Hamlet.

Discuss how the play treats the idea of suicide morally, religiously, and aesthetically, with particular attention to Hamlet’s two important statements about suicide: the “O, that this too solid flesh would melt” solilquy and the “to be or not to be” soliloquy. Why does Hamlet believe that although capable of suicide most human beings choose to live despite the cruelty! Pain, and injustice of the world?