Today we're looking at Hamlet's well-known soliloquy in III.i - "to be, or not to be"
Back to existentialism, here are a few key tenets:
- Existentialism suggests that the world lacks inherent meaning, and human suffering is often met with cosmic indifference.
- Jean-Paul Sartre famously stated that humans are "condemned to be free." This freedom is a burden because it makes the individual solely responsible for their actions.
- The philosopher Martin Heidegger argued that truly "authentic" living only begins when one acknowledges their own mortality.
Re-read the soliloquy. How does this soliloquy reflect existentialist aspects?
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