Question

My short essay is about Hamlet's soliloquy: To be or not to be, and I'm confused about my points-- mainly my 3rd point. Can someone look it over?

Answer 1

My thesis for my short essay about Hamlet's soliloquy 'To be or not to be' is: "Ultimately, Hamlet’s soliloquy shows his inner conflict between his desire to ‘not be,’ his fear of the afterlife, and his duty to avenge his father’s death." My 1st point is his conflict with his conscience, 2nd point Hamlet's duty to kill his father conflicts with the people he loves and the 3rd point is that Hamlet is confused and procrastinating. But it doesn't seem to connect with my thesis.



HELP!

Answer 2

I would say that Hamlet is often quite indifferent to dieing, and sometimes even a little blasé. It's most certainly a dilemma...because he is unsatisfied with life BUT he is afraid of what death will be..."perchance to dream.." Death is an undiscovered country from which no traveler returns!

Essentially - life is bad, but death may be worse.

Your thesis is basically what you are going to talk about for your whole paper, and your topic sentences need to relate to your thesis. So, every paragraph would somehow have to relate to his contemplative attitude and how it intensifies the play or book