Shakespeare, the author of the play Hamlet, uses metaphors and imagery to develop the character Hamlet as a depressed and unstable man. In his soliloquy, he talks about how death is nothing more than an endless dream in a form of a metaphor: “To die, to sleep, - No more - and by a sleep, to say we end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to-...” (5 - 8). Hamlet compares death to sleep as if it’s a normal thing to happen, which is technically true. But, if anyone believes in something like that, it’s often a sure sign that the person is depressed, and, as like Hamlet, they are accepting to the concept of death taking them. Further into the soliloquy, Hamlet questions why anyone would deal with life's many problems,
