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"To be, or not to be", Hamlet in Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Act 3, Scene 1)

"To be, or not to be", Hamlet in Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Act 3, Scene 1)

Update: 2021-09-22
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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 heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks  


That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation  


Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;  


To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, 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.  


For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,  


Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,  


The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,  


The insolence of office, and the spurns  


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 undiscovere'd 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?  


Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,  


And thus the native hue of resolution  


Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,  


And enterprises of great pith and moment  


With this regard their currents turn awry  


And lose the name of action.  


  


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Episode: https://robertwalker.blog/pod8  

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"To be, or not to be", Hamlet in Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Act 3, Scene 1)

"To be, or not to be", Hamlet in Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Act 3, Scene 1)

Robert Walker