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"The Undiscovered Country"
“Hamlet: 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,
And by opposing end them. To die; to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to. ’Tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die; to sleep;—
To sleep? Perchance to dream! Ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffl’d off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause. There’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of dispriz’d love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? Who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscovered country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616),
"The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark"
"The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark"
Definitions: (respect=realization; quietus= final settlement/release from life; contumely= disrespect/abuse; bodkin=dagger; fardels= heavy burdens; bourn= countryside; conscience= awareness)
Modern translation: Why should I continue living this unfair, miserable life with all it’s pains and problems? I’d kill myself, except for fear of not knowing what really comes next, since nobody has ever returned from there, and cowardice makes me endure the misery I know rather than risk whatever might really be after death.
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