Asked by juan
Read the excerpt from Act III of Hamlet.
. . . To e: 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 shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
What does this part of the soliloquy reveal about Hamlet?
He is distraught and unsure.
He is decisive and confident.
He is ready to move forward.
He is about to Claudius.
. . . To e: 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 shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.
What does this part of the soliloquy reveal about Hamlet?
He is distraught and unsure.
He is decisive and confident.
He is ready to move forward.
He is about to Claudius.
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He is distraught and unsure.
The passage shows Hamlet weighing death as a release from suffering but hesitating because of fear of the unknown ("to sleep: perchance to dream... there's the rub" and "must give us pause"), which reveals his doubt and indecision.
The passage shows Hamlet weighing death as a release from suffering but hesitating because of fear of the unknown ("to sleep: perchance to dream... there's the rub" and "must give us pause"), which reveals his doubt and indecision.
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