FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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He is thinking it would be better to be dead than alive.
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He is afraid of having a nightmare about his father everynight.
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He is scared of the unknown if he takes his own life.
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That Ophelia would follow him in death
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Detailed explanation-1: -“To die, to sleep – to sleep, perchance to dream – ay, there’s the rub, for in this sleep of death what dreams may come…” (Hamlet) This is said by Hamlet to himself when he thinks he is alone.
Detailed explanation-2: -’To sleep, perchance to dream’, then, warns against the dangers of longing for the ultimate sleep – the ‘sleep of death’ – because the living can little comprehend what happens after we die, and what ‘dreams’ may lie in store for us then.
Detailed explanation-3: -RALPH: So when Hamlet says “there’s the rub”, he’s saying that the rub, or the obstacle, to our thinking that sleep and death are exactly the same is that we don’t know what dreams are like when we’re dead-this unknown aspect to death is the rub, or the obstacle, to us finding death more appealing.
Detailed explanation-4: -To Sleep, Perchance to Dream Meaning Definition: What happens after death? This quote is a euphemism for suicide. It is common for people to quote this line when talking about sleeping or dreaming, rather than specifically suicide.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hamlet’s fear of the afterlife, of the dreams that may come, allows him to keep going and subsequently defeat the corruption all around him. More comforting than Shakespeare’s pointing to the horrific visions that may come after death is a recent scientific study about end-of-life visions, also referred to as dreams.