Condemned to Reality Renowned for his unparalleled quality and quantity of work, William Shakespeare is not generally recognized as a great philosophical thinker. However it is seen in nearly all of his works that a great thinker is behind the words, which can be better appreciated by modern generations that value not only for his genius but his ability to explore concepts that were not fully examined until centuries after his death. In perhaps his …
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… we are now to question our own morality and values and try to understand if we feel that we are also trapped in a miserable world that lacks a decisive purpose. In many cases we answer that without faith in an illusion that we are, like Hamlet, condemned to only one life here on earth. But perhaps one can find the meaning in this world alone and strive to create that meaning through existence.