Textuality » 4A Interacting
The monologue begins with a dilemma:to be or not to be.Hamlet is going to decided to live or not to live( to die). He is living an inner conflict, conveyed by the first line.Shakespear.uses colon,the colon is a function to make clear in the mind of the reader what the difference may be if one an individual and a human being decide to be or not to be.
He has to decide whether it is noble to go on living and suffer mental contradiction.to suffer means to bear, the different actions of fortune.hamelt puts solutions: to live or to die (to sleep).if we consider the fist option we must support the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune(line 3 ).in line 4 the images of war with the word " arms" in which the choice of existence is expressed, give an impression of how violent is the struggle in Hamlet's mind.
In line 5 he shows an another solution: to die ,it is compared to sleep .dying is compared to sleep because when we sleep it seems as if we were putting an end to the heart ache (7 lines)and also to overcame the thousand natural shocks .The Medieval prospective in which Hamlet sees death as physical liberation from the prison of the body (line 12) and earthly affliction, is countered by the doubt (line 13) of the Renaissance man, concerning the after death (line 11).in line 9 hamlet says..death is to be wished,death put an end of our problems.but this new condition, the liberation from the prison of the body must give the human being a pause(line 13-14), to sleep in h.words is"perchance to dream" but the human being may come across dream and we don't know what such dreams may be like.
Men/ women are afraid of sleeping (dying) because they don't know what there is after death. they don't know if is better to live the real life or to risk to live something worse after death than the real life. From line 15 to line 22 hamlet begins to explain the typology of difficulty when a human want to live. Shakespeare used images of a body suffering to convey the suffering of the soul.
He said: ", whips, scorns, pangs, spurns", all strikes visible on the body. With This use of the lenguage reader feels Hamlet's state of mind.he makes a lists of the injustices and miseries belonging to human behavior and social standing: the passing of time ,unreturned love ,social discrimination and political oppression.From line 20 21:"when he himself..." he undelines how with an act we can put an end of these penis.From line 23 to line 27 hamlet underlines the difficlulty of choice ,to live or not to live, the fear about what we doesn't know , about something after death , " the undiscover...returns"( line 25), we aren't able to know what there is after death because nobody come back to tells us how is this " undiscover country", so we prefer to support the pain of real life .there is periphrasis of death that is called the undiscover'f contry whic n otraveller returns, no one can return from it to describe it,there's no way back if you decides to commit suicide.
in line 27 ""The conscience and the action of thinking make us cowards because we realize what is the crime without having the possibility to correct us or to make the correct choice. In lines 28-33 we can get that the kind of thought which prevents men from committing suicide isn't far from a moral conscience, "resolution" is turned by the "pale cast of thought".Hamlet admits that "conscience does make cowards of us all". He says that when a person starts to think then loses the native hue of resolution. A person changes idea and prefers to go on living. "And lose the name of action" means that a person is unable to act.