In this soliloquy from the play, we see Hamlet’s mental struggle about whether or not he should continue on, or just end his life. He sees all the bad things happening to him and wonders why he should even go on living, and not just give up. That it was cowardly to fear death, but fails to ignore the cowardice that is present is he does decide to end his life.
Hamlet has lots of problems, so much so that he sees life as hopeless and pointless, but killing himself isn’t a solution to them. Someone who really wasn’t a coward would fix the problems that were in front of them rather than kill themselves and hope that they will fix themselves. Avenging his father and taking the throne back would fix all the problems, which suicide would fix none of.
Hamlet is an emotional wreck in this play. He sees all the wrong around him and thinks that there is no way for him to fix it. Instead of trying the stop all that is going on wrong around him from taking place, he just contemplates whether to kill himself, which accomplishes nothing. Suicide never really solves anything, and it wouldn’t make sense for it to here.
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