Both Willy Loman and Hamlet are characters of sufferage. What seems to be the most tormenting part of both of their characters is the indecision. These two men have gotten in their own way so much that it has altered their perception of reality and ability to act towards a healthy remedy. This overall, in ability to respond leads to both their demise.
Shakespeare's Hamlet is a masterpiece of story-telling, and the bloody, complicated plot is handled with a swiftness and tension that remain unbroken if the play is performed as Shakespeare intended it. Yet the ultimate power of the play is not due to Shakespeare's skill as a playwright or even to his incredible control over language. It lies in the character of Hamlet, the most remarkable character that any dramatist ever made. Hamlet was burdened by his own mind. There are few people so fortunate that they have not felt, at one time or another, the weight of the same load, but Hamlet could express in words what most people only vaguely feel. Through the soliloquy's of Hamlet, the reader is able to understand his thoughts and emotional state.
In Hamlet's first soliloquy in Act I, Scene 2, he appears extremely confused and frustrated with the world around him. He begins by expressing his sickness of life when he saysHow weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable / Seem to me all the uses of this world!?(1.2.139-140). Hamlet also expresses his longing for death when he statesO, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! / Or that the Everlasting had not fixed / His canongainst self-slaughter!?(135-138). This desire is so intense that nothing stands between him and suicide except religious fear. He is extremely sick of life and contemplating suicide, not because he is grieving over his father's death; for someone loved and lost does not make a noble individual hate the world as a place full only of thingsrank and gross?(142).
