4th Hamlet Soliloquy - To Be Or Not To Be

Question 1

When is it

Answer 1

3.1

Question 2

‘To be, or not to be, that is the question’

Answer 2

to live or not to live, infinitive of ‘to be’ conveys a choice and aspiration, 11 syllables, usually 10 in iambic pentameter which slows it down, ends on unstressed beat - feminine ending

Question 3

metaphor, troubles are wide and deep, extreme amount like the sea

Answer 3

‘Or to take arms against a sea of troubles’

Question 4

looks forward to the sleep of death

Answer 4

‘To die to sleep’

Question 5

physical pain of living

Answer 5

‘The heart ache and the thousand natural shocks’

Question 6

‘For in that sleep of death and what dreams may come’

Answer 6

troubled with thoughts of what happens after death

Question 7

What stops us from acting

Answer 7

‘Thus conscience does make cowards of us all’

Question 8

cant do anything as we think too much

Answer 8

‘And lose the name of action’

Question 9

loving declaration, mythical allusions, ironic as Hamlet has been cruel to her

Answer 9

‘The fair Ophelia! Nymph, in thy orisons’