FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
HAMLET
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Hamlet
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Claudius
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Laertes
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Ophelia
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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: -Video Transcript: SARAH: Hamlet now repeats his earlier line-“ to die: to sleep", which equated death and sleep.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Shakespeare’s “Hamlet, ” when Hamlet was contemplating suicide, he said, ““To sleep; perchance to dream: ay there’s the rub: for in that sleep of death what dreams may come?”
Detailed explanation-4: -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.