English

To be, or not to be? That is the question

Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And, by opposing, end them? To die, to sleep No more and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flash is heir to tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wished! To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream ay, theres the rub,
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. Theres the respect
that makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th oppressors wrong, the proud mans contumely.
The pangs of despised live, the laws delay,
The insolence of office, and the spums
That patient merit of th unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life.
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveler returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all.
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lise the name of action. Soft you now,
The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins remembered.

Hamlet questions whether he should live or die.

The motifs of death is consistently reappearing
through die and sleep. Hamlet simplifies the
nature of death, suggesting that sleeping is all
that dying is, and it ends all the pain on earth.
However, he then focuses on the cons of dying,
and questions the nature of afterlife, being
uncertain.
Hamlet expresses that no one wants to put up
with lifes humiliations, hence scorns of time.
Furthermore, he expresses the superfluous
nature of live, the legal system, the rudeness of
humanity, and the mistreatment of good people
from the bad, and expresses the simplicity to end
this by taking out a knife. (suicide)
The whole soliloquy expresses Hamlets
contemplation between life and death, and his
perspective on life after death. Additionally, he
also expresses the reasons why dying is such a
good solution to end all the negative sectors of
the world.
However, in the end, the audience can still feel
Hamlets love for Ophelia when he asks her to
remember him when she prays, though he
doesnt want her to hear him.
The indecisive nature of Hamlet creates a sense
of confusion as the contrast between life and
death in the beginning of the soliloquy to
affection in the end, causes a sense of ambiguity
because the audience doesnt know whether to
believe Hamlet is a melancholic over death or
love.

Romon Yang 2014