FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Question
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Hamlet is alone, thinking the lines ‘outloud’.
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Hamlet speaks his lines directly to Ophelia.
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Hamlet notices Polonius and Claudius spying on him, performs his lines to manipulate the duo.
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Ophelia reads the lines, having discovered them written in a letter by Hamlet.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The soliloquy is essentially all about life and death: “To be or not to be” means “To live or not to live” (or “To live or to die"). Hamlet discusses how painful and miserable human life is, and how death (specifically suicide) would be preferable, would it not be for the fearful uncertainty of what comes after death.
Detailed explanation-2: -PART A: Which of the following best states a theme of the soliloquy? Suicide is not only tragic but morally wrong, and should be discouraged.
Detailed explanation-3: -When you hear the word “soliloquy, ” you might think of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Act Three, Scene One, in which Hamlet ponders the value of his continued existence: “To be, or not to be, that is the question.” So begins one of the most iconic soliloquies in the dramatic arts.