COMPREHENSION:

 

>>How does Hamlet describe life?

Hamlet describe life as existence, sea of troubles, outrageous fortune, slings and arrows.

 

>> How does he describe death?

He describes death as not to be, not suffering, forget reality and so avoid problems. He compares it to sleep, to dream.

 

>>What is troubling Hamlet at the idea of dying?

He is worried about after-death life because dream may come after death.

 

>> Life is described as inescapable torment. What exactly are the torments of life?

The torments of the life are: the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor wrong, the insolence of power and authority, the law’s delay, the pain of despised love.

 

>>Why do we choose to go on living, according to Hamlet? Choose two quotation to illustrate this point.

 

People are scared of what may came after death.                                                                   Lines 11-14

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

 

Death is an undiscovered country because people who went to this country had never returned back.

 Lines 24-26

The undiscover’d country, from whose bourn

No traveler returns-puzzles the will,

And makes us rather bear those ills we have

 

>> What conclusion does Hamlet reach?

Hamlet thinks that the conscience stop people from suicide.

 

>>What is Hamlet’s mood in this soliloquy?

Hamlet in this soliloquy is pessimistic, sad and tragic.