The text is taken from the tragedy “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare from act III scene I. This is a monologue where Hamlet is thinking about the meaning of life and death.

He starts using a double infinitive and he compares his life to a fight using the words arrows and slings and he asks himself what there might be after death. He is deciding if for him it will be better to die or to stay alive. There are five verbs that are all important and all connected one to another: to live, to suffer, to die, and to sleep, to dream. To live and to die are one against the other, to die is connected to to sleep because death could be compared to an eternal sleep, and to dream is an action that can take place only when you are sleeping. Finally to suffer is something that it may occurred equally during the life and also in the death, because everyone can suffer during his or her life, the death can be painful either for who is dying of for who stays. Moreover, for Hamlet it can be painful maybe after death.