Hamlet

“Hamlet”


In Hamlet, by William Shakespeare, Hamlet is forced to cope with a changing world. Everything Hamlet once knew and recognized is changing. Hamlet is unable to understand what is going on. His life was very complicated. In Hamlets famous speech, “To be or not to be...” he asks himself whether it would be better to live in this horror or to kill himself and be free. When faced with the lies and betrayals by his friends and family, Hamlet is forced to choose between living or dying.
Hamlet says,
To be or not to be--that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or take arms against a sea of troubles
And, by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep--
No more-- and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to--...
In this speech, Hamlet asks what would be...