t to be, - that is the questions: - Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?” (Shakespeare 1088).
Hamlet seems to welcome death as a comfort in this soliloquy when considering the “heart-ache and thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to” (Shakespeare 1088). Nevertheless, Hamlet knows he must avenge the death of his father. Even so, he does not rashly act. He has a chance to murder Claudius, but resists it. He instead laments his predicament because it has placed him into a spiritual dilemma. Hamlet’s spiritualism is not Christian. If anything it more resembles Protestanti
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