Monday 10 April 2017

TO BE OR NOT TO BE

“TO BE OR NOT TO BE” Hamlet
Love Literature? Read and let your mind do the literary appreciation.
One of my best character’s line in a play, is of hamlet in the Shakespeare’s tragedy play, Hamlet
Act three, Scene one; here the character points a dagger towards his stomach contemplating suicide, thereby giving a thought provoking soliloquy which goes thus:
“To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether ‘tis (it is) nobler in the mind to suffer, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or 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 heart the ache, and the thousand natural shackles that flesh is heir to.
‘Tis (it is) a consummation, devoutly to be wished. To die, to sleep: perchance to dream: ay(yes) there’s the rub.
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, must give us pause. There’s the respect that makes calamity of so long life”.

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