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Among all of the themes in Hamlet, morality, aswell as suicide cause an abundance of questions to be considered as the drama unfolds. At the present date suicide is looked upon with immense sympathy, considering what may have led the person to their downfall in life. However, beforehand in Elizabethan England, committing suicide was a huge sin against oneself, going against the 6th commandment "thou shall not murder" and also abuses the religious fact that only God has the authority to give, and therefore 'end' life. Shakespeare portrayed Hamlet as a very intelligent Prince from the beginning; however, from Hamlet's first soliloquy (act 1 scene II) Hamlet makes it well known that he is in a time of anguish when he makes reference to his diminishing lack of self worth ,"but no more like my father...Than I to Hercules". He also contemplates suicide, "...sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into...

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