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MSuppan - 4A - Hamlet and the Monologue
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1. Hamlet describes life as the condition where a human, who suffers.2. He describes death as the way to end all the sufferings and what people should want.3. He thinks that maybe if he killed his self, he would rest in peace, without all problems of life.4. In his opinion they are the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s scorn, the pain of despised love, the low’s delay and the insolence of power and authority.5. Hamlet says “conscience does make cowards of us all” and “the native hue of resolution is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought” , to express that perhaps during the life there are good aspects too. In fact everybody who’s suffering should choose the way of death instead of keep on doing it.6. He understand that maybe there is a point and because of it he ought to reflect better on suicide.7. In the beginning of the soliloquy Hamlet is sad, but in the end he feels better because, by reflecting, he founded a new possible way.8. In my opinion Hamlet is not thinking about just his single situation, but is reflecting about a more general human problem. In fact he does not mention his personal problems, neither writes the pronoun “I” and uses the infinitive instead of the present or the past. The soliloquy is the way to express his reflections: to live or not, to act or not, and says he does not know what it may happen after death. Moreover he explains what are the torments of life, like whips and scorns and the insolence of authority and ends by making the reader to understand that he will not suicide soon.9. There are examples of repetition of the words “sleep” and “dream” to underline the meaning of Hamlet’s speech and the use of opposition between “dream” and “death” to improve the feeling of Hamlet’s radical situation, who must decide if “to be or not to be”.10. Probably Hamlet does not know what the others are doing, but as he does not trust nobody, maybe he has already understand what they are going to do.