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MStefanich - To Be Or Not To Be
by - (2010-01-10)
Up to Hamlet: one of W. Shakespeare's Greatest Tragedies
TO BE
To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
To take arms against a sea of troubles
To bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law's delay, the insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes
To bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life
NOT TO BE
To die = to sleep
To say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
Consummation devoutly to be wished
To die = to sleep = perchanche to dream
What dreams may come
The dread of something after death
The undiscovered country from whose no traveller returns
To fly to an unknown place
To suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
To take arms against a sea of troubles
To bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man contumely, the pangs of despised love, the law's delay, the insolence of office and the spurns that patient merit of the unworthy takes
To bear, to grunt and sweat under a weary life
NOT TO BE
To die = to sleep
To say we end the heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
Consummation devoutly to be wished
To die = to sleep = perchanche to dream
What dreams may come
The dread of something after death
The undiscovered country from whose no traveller returns
To fly to an unknown place