Act III.1

"To be or not to be" (III.1.64) Hamlet`s famous quote. Hamlet is transformed since his father`s murder and he is going mad. Death is something he thinks about very often. I do not know if he wants to die but, he has been suffering a lot and he is overwelmed: "To die, to sleep / (...) The heartache and the thousand of natural shocks" (III.1.68-70). He is devastated and death is the only thing he thinks about. Death because his father died, death because he wants to die.

In this speech Hamlet looks at death as something positive. I would say that death is not positive because you disapear from your love ones, you stop being aware that you existed, everything fades away. He sees death as an escape from the tragedy he is being summited. Death might be the escape of many problems but it is not the apropiate way to "solve problems". The problem will not be solved but evaded.