Motif Of Life In Hamlet
In the play Hamlet by William Shakespeare the “To Be or Not To Be”soliloquy has a strong connection of growth and uncertainty that is shown throughout the text using a motif and repetition of life and death and the simple and difficult ways of life.
Throughout the text the motif and repetition of death is displayed. When hamlet is talking about death he os making death sound like the better option in his case. In the text Hamlet says “No more; and by sleep to say we end/ the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks/ that flesh is heir to” (III, i, 69-71). When Hamlet conveys this he is saying that once a person dies then all of the heartaches and hocks in life would all come to an end and there would be no more worrying or stress, you …show more content…
When Hamlet is talking he is explaining how life is very burdensome and a lack of power. When Hamlet says “Who would these fardels bear,/ to grunt and sweat under a weary life,/ but that the dread of something after death-/ the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns” (III, i, 84-88), he is sating that it is hard licing a hard and weary life but life after death is a scary concept and once a person is gone they never come back, because death is a permanent thing and cannot be changed. This is connecting uncertainty because Hamlet is uncertain about life and the life after death and which is better to be in. In the text Hamlet says “Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune/ or to take arms against a sea of troubles” (III, i, 65-67). In this he is uncertain of whether it is better to live a life of hardships and to suffer or to just give up and go into an eternal sleep. Hamlet later says “Thus conscience does make cowards [of us all,]/ and thus the native hue of resolution” (III, i, 91-92). When Hamlet says this he is realizing that life is important and that you only live once. This is displaying great growth for Hamlet because he is realizing that life is more important than
Throughout the text the motif and repetition of death is displayed. When hamlet is talking about death he os making death sound like the better option in his case. In the text Hamlet says “No more; and by sleep to say we end/ the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks/ that flesh is heir to” (III, i, 69-71). When Hamlet conveys this he is saying that once a person dies then all of the heartaches and hocks in life would all come to an end and there would be no more worrying or stress, you …show more content…
When Hamlet is talking he is explaining how life is very burdensome and a lack of power. When Hamlet says “Who would these fardels bear,/ to grunt and sweat under a weary life,/ but that the dread of something after death-/ the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns” (III, i, 84-88), he is sating that it is hard licing a hard and weary life but life after death is a scary concept and once a person is gone they never come back, because death is a permanent thing and cannot be changed. This is connecting uncertainty because Hamlet is uncertain about life and the life after death and which is better to be in. In the text Hamlet says “Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer/ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune/ or to take arms against a sea of troubles” (III, i, 65-67). In this he is uncertain of whether it is better to live a life of hardships and to suffer or to just give up and go into an eternal sleep. Hamlet later says “Thus conscience does make cowards [of us all,]/ and thus the native hue of resolution” (III, i, 91-92). When Hamlet says this he is realizing that life is important and that you only live once. This is displaying great growth for Hamlet because he is realizing that life is more important than