FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
MACBETH
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Act II, Scene I
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Act III, Scene III
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Act IV, Scene III
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Act III, Scene I
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Detailed explanation-1: -"To be, or not to be” is the opening phrase of a speech given by Prince Hamlet in the so-called “nunnery scene” of William Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1. In the speech, Hamlet contemplates death and suicide, weighing the pain and unfairness of life against the alternative, which might be worse.
Detailed explanation-2: -Hamlet is questioning whether or not fear of death or consequence can make us slow to act. How might he relate to this in terms of his own life?
Detailed explanation-3: -The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To act, or not to act: that is my question.
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.
Detailed explanation-5: -In this soliloquy of Hamlets, we witness a collision between the classic revenger and the intellectual. Hamlet is arguing with himself. Rationally, he is willing himself to be logical and bring no harm to his Mother. But Hamlet’s blood is hot, and he feels his soul tearing for violence and bloodshed.