"â€To sleep! Perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come."
These lines again mark a transition in thinking. Hamlet is thinking about
questions of life and death. The lines quoted above is significant in that
they remind the reader that nobody knows what happens after death. This
should then be enough of a deterrent for suicide.
To Be or Not to Be (option #5): The speech struck me personally in that it
provides a consideration of the aspect of life and death from all
perspectives. Hamlet as it were leaves not stone unturned in his
investigation of the significance of life.
Scene II (option #1): In this scene Hamlet, under the guise of his
madness, goes further to determine the guilt of the Queen and her new
husband. He devises a play dramatizing the events as his father's ghost
made them clear to him. The reactions of the king and queen then reveal to
Hamlet that they are indeed guilty of the crime.
Scene III (option #7): I am playing Hamlet. He is feeling so intensely
negative about his father's brother and the murder, that he will not take
his uncle's life while the latter is praying. He is afraid of sending him
to heaven and thus not exacting any revenge at all for the murder.
Scene IV (option #6): This scene deals with the relationship between
Hamlet and his mother. Hamlet is indignant and hurt that his mother could
have committed such a horrendous act. The Queen however uses emotional
language in order to try appeasing her son:
"What I have done, that thou darest wag thy tongue
In noise so rude against me'" (line 38-39).
Hamlet however will believe none of her pacifying words, since he already
Scene I (option #3): What confuses me in this scene is that Hamlet's
madness appears to have helped rather than hindered his mother's and
uncle's cause. I would like to ask hi
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