FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Gertrude
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Ophelia
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Hamlet
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Polonius
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Detailed explanation-1: -4. True or false: Hamlet says the famous line, “To be or not to be, that is the question.” Hamlet says this line while contemplating suicide.
Detailed explanation-2: -In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, weighing the pain and unfairness of life against the alternative, which might be worse.
Detailed explanation-3: -As in society today, suicide is contagious in Hamlet, at least in the example of Ophelia, the one death by suicide in the play: She only becomes suicidal after hearing Hamlet talk about his own suicidal thoughts in “To be, or not to be.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Hamlet seriously contemplates suicide, but decides against it, mainly because it is a mortal sin against God. Hamlet continues to say that most of humanity would commit suicide and escape the hardships of life, but do not because they are unsure of what awaits them in the after life.
Detailed explanation-5: -Hamlet is basically contemplating suicide on and off throughout his soliloquies. In this soliloquy, he compares death to a little sleep, which he thinks wouldn’t be so bad.