hamlet
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- In these scene, we find Hamlet speaking aloud about whether "to be, or not to be," meaning to live or to die. Here, he thinks he is all alone but the audience understands that King Claudius and Polonius are listening.
- To be, or not to be, that is the question: ...
- To die, to sleep, no more; and by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocksThat Flesh is heir to?
- Hamlet continues his thoughts of suicide. he wants to die when he says the quote above. Both the King and Claudius are still listening without Hamlet's knowledge.
- 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.
- Hamlet, consumed by sorrow and slight madness, realizes that the catch of living is to forever dream in eternal sleep once at life's end. His words, "There's the respect that makes calamity of so long life." his heartache for his realization of why life is lengthy and the way and full of unfortunate events.
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