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FZanaboni - To be or not to be
by 2010-01-19)
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To Be:
- To Suffer.. Fortune: this lines show the sufferings of life due to a bad or good fate.
- Or to take.. troubles: Again the same concept is here expressed.
- Mortal Coil: The adjective mortal indicates a "non-life" .
- Calamity.. life: This lines expresses the troubles of life.
- The whips.. takes: This five lines deal with the problems of life, the pain, the passing of time and a life dominated by an oppressor.
- Weary life: Refers to a life which is not properly lived because it wears time and strengths.
- And makes.. we have: Hamlet states that man prefers to live with problems and ill and not put an end to life itself.
- Conscience: is a typical term referring to a living creature.
- Cowards: refers to a living man because you cannot be coward if you are dead.
- Sins: This word belongs to this category because you can "commit a sin" only if you are alive.
Not to be:
- To die: it refers to the lack of life.
- To sleep: it is a comparison between sleeping without dreams and death.
- By.. shocks: if a man is died he does not worry about heartache and natural shocks.
- This.. wished: the word "consummation" is a synonym of death and it has to be deeply wished.
- To dream: a man can dream only when he sleeps and, as I sad before, sleeping is a synonym of dieing.
- Death: is the lack of life.
- Undiscovered country: is the land from which no body can return because he is dead.
- No.. return: it expressing the same meaning of previous point.
- Than.. of?: the line refers to the world which we do not know and of which we cannot talk until we are alive (a man can not be aware of what comes after death).
- Pale: the adjective indicates the typical colour of a corpse.