Who else out there can relate to that Hamlet speech To Be Or Not To Be?
There is chaos at the heart of Shakespeare’s most anguished protagonist, the price Hamlet of Denmark, the noble royal, a scholar, a soldier and a passionate lover. The chaos is of uncertainty and uncertainty of a belief first, as he struggle to come to terms with the reality of his untimely encounter with the ghost of his father, the late king of now the ‘rotten’ state of Denmark, where, as he is told that his father is killed by his very own incestuous uncle, the present king, and he disposed off of his right to the throne. But there is an uncertainty of another type to consume him, and that led to his failure in execution of his ‘duty’ of revenge. This is significant to note the very first of Hamlet’s reaction upon the injunction of the news of his father’s untimely death, as he utters tempestuously when he is about to be informed about the culprit: ‘hast me to know it, that I with wings as swift as mediation and thoughts of love may sweep to my revenge’, or something like this. This
