Stuck between a rock and hard place October 7, 2008

What is a dream? Sigmund Freud analyzed them to no end. Shakespeare has compared them to death. There are nightmares in dreaming, but for many it can be a peaceful experience. Dreams for many people have been a wonderful escape from reality. In Hamlet, he has to decide whether it is better to dream and in dreaming give into depression and die. Hamlet in the end realizes he cannot escape reality. Another true reality to Hamlet is the man code of honor where a man is a disgraced who does not go through the act of revenge. Hamlet would fear the wrath of purgatory and the anger of his father. The punishment of the father would not be as bad as being stuck in purgatory. Purgatory to a man in that position would be like going to sleep with no dreams at all. Even in hell, there would be a feeling of existence.