Hamlet
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- I
- To be, or not to be, that is the question: ...
- In this scene, Hamlet wonders aloud whether he should "be or not be," that is, live or die. Here, he thinks he is alone, but the audience knows King Claudius and Polonius are listening.
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- II
- To die, to sleep, no more; and by a sleep, to say we endThe heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocksThat Flesh is heir to?
- Hamlet continues his thoughts of suicide by emphasizing the obvious intentions to die when he says the quote above. Both the King and Claudius are still listening without Hamlet's knowledge.
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- III
- aye, there's the rub,For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, ... There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life.
- Slowly consumed by grief and mild madness, Hamlet realizes that the key to life is to spend his last moments dreaming forever in eternal sleep. His statement: "There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life." is outdated for his understanding of why life is long and full of misfortunes.
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- IV
- That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,When he himself might his Quietus makeWith a bare Bodkin? ...
- A while after speaking of the disadvantages one believes that life has to for one to burden and his recent realization of life's "rub" , Hamlet takes out his bodkin as if he had convinced himself to commit suicide and was eager to live no more. The two spies witnesses this.
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- V
- He soon changed his attitude and was now skeptical about taking his own life because, although life's misfortunes were too painful, he was shaken by the unknown fear of the afterlife.
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- VI
- The importance of suicide has diminished, as he archaically said in the text bubble above. His “loss of action” is expressed simply: his will to die has disappeared; that that moment was over. The soliloquy ends.
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- But that the dread of something after death, The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of?
- And enterprises of greatpitchand moment,With this regard their Currents turnawry,And lose the name of Action.
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