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 to 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 heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to: 'tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
The pangs of dispriz'd love, the law's delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns
That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovere'd country, from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience doth make cowards of us all,
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
Life with uncertainty
Everyday our lives are filled with doubt and uncertainty. To be or not to be in Hamlet, by Shakespeare, Hamlet is going on a rant about a life and death about the world full of vengeance and corruption. life isn’t so simple to hamlet and is full of questions remaining to be answered. Hamlet is going on a rant about the madness of the world.
Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep;
To sleep, perchance to dream—ay, there's the rub:
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause—there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
This quote show how Hamlet is debating why life is the way it is. He’s wondering what the difference between life and death is. For me it’s kinda hard for me to find the themes in the speech and it was hard to find a quote that supports the theme just like how Hamlet is finding a hard time finding the themes in life. In life we are filled with uncertainty that we might never figure out.
I chose this poem because Fitz suggested it to me and I thought it was a good idea to give me a challenge. In 6th grade I had to do a Shakespeare play and I was in MacBeth so I know how challenging it can be to do memorize and present a Shakespeare piece infront of a group of people. I like how powerful this dialogue is and it gives a message that anyone one with at le war a small level of comprehension can understand and get a message out of the text. I’m a little bit worried about it but I’m excited to start memorizing it and saying it on my death bed in the future. Doing the WW Fenn video was a lot different than I expected I was able to find a lot of pictures that go with the video but they were hard to transition smoothly and I felt like It was hard for me to record because my delivery felt off and I might have mumbled and mispronounced some of the words. The recitation of the WW Fenn went a lot smoother that I expected I feel like all my classmates did great and did a very good job when it came to reciting their pieces I felt like I could have done a better job and that I rushed myself through my recitation. Other than that I think I had a great time reciting and I’m glad that the process is over