... the unbearable world. His famous speech reveals what he thinks about his human condition in the cruel world. Hamlet starts his speech with, "To be, or not to be," in other words, to live or not to live. He ... is trying to solve the problem of whether to commit suicide or not. He takes into consideration the moral consequences of living and dying. Hamlet does not know if the afterlife is better or worse than the current world. He compares death ... uncertainty about the afterlife prevents him from committing suicide. The "dread of something after death" makes people stay with their suff...

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... embrace it when it arrives. At the same time, in William Shakespeare's "To be, or not to be" soliloquy from his play "Hamlet," the main character struggles with whether to live or to take his own life. Although these poems view death differently, they all have similarities which link them together and at the same time have their differences. These three literary works share ... linking them to dreams and good nights. One other similarity shared by all three poems is that they were written in iambic pentameter. In Shakespeare's soliloquy, Hamlet shows his uncertainty for what happens aft...

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... .i.81-82). This uncertainty makes humans, in Shakespeare's thought, deal with the reality of the troubles that life brings to every person. Shakespeare is correct in pointing out that life is indeed full of disappointments but for us to put up with it because of our uncertainty of life after death is a poor excuse for why we continue to live. Humans continue to live because unlike Hamlet, we strive for ... something better and have the belief that any wrongdoing will be justified later with a token of fortune. Among the recurring ... themes in the story is Hamlet's transition from think...

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... correct protocol in his position, and he makes sure he does the right thing, when he strikes. This is the Seventeenth Century way of perceiving life. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, however, are completely obsessed with finding out their role, and where they fit into the scheme of things. They have no idea of what they are to achieve, where they ... , that's all."ž By transforming the lead characters in his exploration of death, Stoppard has transformed death from the dramatic, to the everyday. Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead are both preoccupied with the philosophy of lan...

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