Hamlet's soul is weighed down by the moral dilemma of choosing to live or to die. He reminisces between the "flesh to heir", calamities, and fear of the afterlife; all of which, rationalize his thoughts in his mind to continue living. Hamlet is a very conflicted being, he keeps seeing apparitions of his dead father who asks him to avenge his death. Furthermore, his mother married his father's murderer, Hamlet's uncle, Claudius. He is also torn between the responsibilities of his position in Denmark and showing affection to his loved ones. In this soliloquy, Hamlet enumerates some of the negative aspects of human existence. The "proud man' or "the impudence of office", for instance, are prominent negative figures in life.
On the contrary, Hamlet begins to question whether or not he should die. At first, dreams are acceptable until he reflects on what will happen to him when he enters
into a deep sleep. He ponders about life after death. Hamlet establishes that human beings are comfortable with the known and fear the unknown. Moreover, his dead father's commentary about the afterlife has been overwhelmingly disastrous. To conclude his soliloquy, Hamlet discusses how our conscience makes us cowards. It is our thoughts which cast us from great things.
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