Dealing with death so far in AP Lit

There are many similarities between Hamlet and other pieces we have read this year in AP Lit. When one looks at similar themes throughout all the novels, short stories, and plays we have read, the most prevalent is dealing with death. In The Things They Carried, this theme is a constant struggle for the author and many other characters as they readjust to civilian life after the war in Vietnam.  Some of the characters have trouble coping with the destruction they saw during the war and kill themselves as a means to put an end to the memories. In Mrs. Dalloway, Septimius Smith suffers from a sever case of PTSD after he returns home after World War One. He too decides to kill himself, however, he does it as a way to avoid the mental therapy he was set to receive. In The Dead, Gabriel must deal with what appears to be the death of his marriage once he learns his wife still has feeling for a boy from her childhood and realizes his marriage has turned cold and desolate. Although death is never directly discussed in The Wasteland, there are indirect references to it and the First World War. If one examines the scene where the author writes about the quietness and abandonment of the Thames River, the reader can interpret this as being due to the death of a country's liveliness because of the costs of the war.  In Hamlet, Hamlet struggles to deal with the death of his father. Hamlet learns the death was a murder and is conflicted with how to go about righting this injustice; this quest eventually leads to Hamlet losing his sanity and much more. The theme of dealing with death is present in all of the pieces we have read this year, in one way or another.