FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Hamlet
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Gertrude
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Ophelia
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Polonius
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hamlet is talking about the bad things that happen to us in life as being attacks by this personified ‘Fortune, ’ firing at us with deadly weapons. It is part of his reason for wanting to walk away from life. ‘Slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’ is a linguistic construct typical of Shakespeare.
Detailed explanation-2: -The quote is from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. In act 3, scene 1 Hamlet contemplates the pain and unfairness of life: “To be or not to be? 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…”
Detailed explanation-3: -When Hamlet utters the pained question, “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” (III. i. 59-61) there is little doubt that he is thinking of death.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.