Oryx And Crake, Fifth Business, And Hamlets Hamlet

Life is not worth living if a person fails to seek wisdom and knowledge on how to live a good life. With wisdom and knowledge a person is able to reflect on their life helping them find value to it. Socrates, a philosopher came up with the idea of an â€Å"unexamined life is not worth living†, stating that people should find meaning in life through thorough examination. Through the novels Oryx and Crake, Fifth Business, and the play Hamlet, the protagonists Snowman, Dunstan, and Hamlet all reflect on their lives in order to make life meaningful and worth living. Snowman constantly reflect on his life, thus making the choice to nurture the Crakers upon Oryx’s request whom he loved dearly. He also feels a certain responsibility towards the†¦show more content†¦Snowman also does not let the Crakers unique physique affect him. He does not judge them for their different reproductive abilities. When Snowman runs into them while the women are in heat, he simply does n ot disturb them and moves away from the area. He describes it in a positive light how their reproduction is beneficial as it does not cause any complications. â€Å"Under the old dispensation, sexual competition had been relentless and cruel† (Atwood, 165). Snowman is able to find value in life by parenting the Crakers, which is made possible by reflecting on his own life. In Robertson Davies novel, Fifth Business the main character Dunstable Ramsay is constantly reflecting on his life in order to make it meaningful and worth living. He is put through a life changing decision on whether or not to keep his childhood friends secret, which at the end he ends up doing. It all starts with Percy Boyd Staunton, who throws a snowball that was intended to hit Dunstan, but Dunstan being able to dodge it, caused the snowball to hit Mary Dempster instead. The snowball incident causes Mary Dempster to go into premature labour, thus causing Paul to be born as a feeble child. â€Å"I was perfectly sure, you see, that the birth of Paul Dempster, so small, so feeble was my fault† (Davis, 16). Dunstan